When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the newly discovered structures.

The Sunddhnúksgígar volcano began erupting on Tuesday morning as residents of nearby town Grindavík and tourists of luxury ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

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Centuries of eruptions on the Big Island have created hidden networks of passages beneath volcanoes. In December 2016 a large lava delta formed by Kilauea volcano sank into the sea, exposing the ...

The episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea in Halemaʻumaʻu Crater has been going on for more than 3 months now, with 16 eruptive ...

Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...

Yereth Rosen Alaska Beacon Nov 18, 2024 Nov 18, 2024 Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered something unusual in the Arctic Ocean off northern Alaska: a volcano-like ...

although the sedimentary rocks that settled on its ocean floor and the volcanoes that fringed its edges remain to tell the tale of its existence. To understand the fascinating mechanics of the ...