The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption back in January 2022 was visible from space and the images are incredible.

The deep-sea volcanoes beneath Earth’s oceans may offer vital clues in the search for alien life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

While popular culture commonly depicts extraterrestrial life as little green men with large, oval-shaped heads, it’s most ...

An expedition in the Red Sea found several brine pools that appear to be fed by underwater volcanoes, which may be home to ...

UMass Amherst microbiologist James Holden brings decades of expertise in rare microbes to a NASA mission searching for life ...

The hydrothermal microbes Holden studies thrive in lightless, oxygen-less conditions a mile or more beneath the ocean’s surface.