Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes on the planet, and this new eruptive phase confirms its ongoing activity.

Scientists discover hidden "ghost plume" beneath Oman using earthquake data, revealing Earth's secret heat pathways.

Before Westeros was laced with greedy Lannisters, silver-haired Targaryens, and the honorable Starks, before there ever was Game of Thrones, there was Valyria.

As another school year ends, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory welcomes two new summer interns: Kamalani Poepoe and Ruth ...

Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian ...

As simple pleasures are gay and hiking is gay, it feels easy to declare that the sport of rockhounding is also a gay activity ...

Researchers working to harness lave flows into livable green structures may be onto something in thinking about buildings of the ...

The image, captured by NASA ’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, is the first of its kind: a volcano on the Red Planet seen on the ...

Jezero Crater, once a lake bed some 3.5 billion years ago, has become the focus of NASA’s search for signs of past life. It’s ...

Some sunsets are quiet. Some roar. On Hawaiʻi Island, at the rim of Kīlauea Crater, the sky does both. The light stretches across lava fields, filters through volcanic mist and melts into deep red ...

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