The true date of the eruption has long eluded—and vexed—historians of the deadly disaster. Here’s what the archaeological ...

So. It’s December 31, and that means one thing: that the world – and specifically, Axial Seamount, the volcano lying on the ...

Let’s image the simplest, most boring volcano possible. It consists of a magma balloon fed by a straw. The ground is perfectly flat above the balloon. Magma comes up the straw at a constant ...

On some Mars images, Olympus Mons does not look dramatic at first glance. It sits there quietly, a wide pale rise against ...

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

The perfect relaxing thing to sneak off and watch whilst your family argues over the post-Christmas dinner game of Monopoly.

Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano spewed lava nearly 1,400 feet into the sky during an eruption that ended early Christmas Eve morning, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The eruption, captured live ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea—one of Earth’s most active volcanoes—is bringing the drama. On December 6 lava fountains in the Halema‘uma‘u crater at the shield volcano’s summit spewed more than 1,000 feet into the ...

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reached its perihelion, or its closest point to the Sun, earlier this year, shedding copious amounts of ice and dust in the process. “We were all surprised,” ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the rural northeast of Ethiopia erupted November 23. Afar Communication Bureau via Facebook A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption ...

A long-quiet volcano in Ethiopia spewed ash nine miles into the sky on Sunday, marking the first known major eruption from this volcano for more than 12,000 years. Under-studied and situated in ...