May 31, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano.

A false-color satellite photo from 2023 shows a devilish pair of lava flows and an enormous plume of smoke spewing from Klyuchevskoy, the tallest volcano in Europe and Asia.

The volcano has two main parts: The large lake-filled, crater-like depression, known as the Tsar-Rusyr caldera, which spans up to 5 miles (8 kilometers) across; and the cone-shape mountain that ...

The Solar System is a vast and mysterious realm, filled with planets, moons, asteroids, and icy bodies waiting to be ...

The seeds of life on Earth might have come from outer space – and might be widespread throughout the rest of the universe, scientist say. Researchers have found complex organic molecules in a disc ...

The U.N. principles in their current form don’t address these loopholes. The draft U.N. principles released in April mirror, and are confined by, the language of the Outer Space Treaty.