Satellites detect that Iran's Taftan volcano has risen 3.5 inches, which is an indication of internal pressure and volcanic ...

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

Emily Schwing: In 1912 a volcano in Alaska more than blew its top. Known as Novarupta, it was responsible for the most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century. Kristi Wallace: The reason we ...

While volcanoes have brought profound changes to landscapes here on Earth, volcanic activity on other planets and moons has followed a different path. It's easy to imagine space volcanoes as even more ...

NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads ...

Read about the volcano that some believe almost wiped humans off the planet Donald R. Prothero Our story begins on a very bad day about 74,000 years ago. The planet was starting to move out of one of ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The summit of Mauna Kea on the Hawaiʻi Island hosts the world’s largest astronomical observatory for optical, infrared and submillimeter astronomy. But Mauna Kea has a much more ...

A hiker's pack usually gets lighter over time as they plow through trail mix and water, but Annika Dechert likes to joke that hers gets heavier. As an Earth sciences graduate student at the University ...

Huge lava fountains and plumes of ash were seen being sent high into the night sky over the weekend. Find out more here.

Tiny glass beads brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 astronauts are helping scientists uncover new clues about how the moon erupted billions of years ago. No one expected these glittering bits among the ...