A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come ...

Analyzing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in Earth's crust in Turkey has brought new ...

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

This false-color satellite photo from 2014 shows the immense heat emanating from lava lakes at the summits of a pair of ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has erupted for a 19th time since December 2024. A timelapse from the USGS shows the eruption, which ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological history.

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.

A deep-sea volcano 300 miles off the Oregon coast is showing strong signs it may erupt soon, researchers at the University of ...

Extinct Volcanoes a 'Rich' Source of Rare Earth Elements Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and ...

A pair of 2021 satellite photos highlight an unusually heavy snowfall in Hawaii that covered the summits of the volcanoes ...