Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

By Dean Murray A Hawaiian volcano looks like a scene from "The Lord of the Rings" as it spews lava this week. A United States ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

And while Earth, of course, has plenty of active volcanoes of its own, eruptions on the Jovian moon have attracted scientific interest because they are thought to be caused by very different factors.

EXCLUSIVE: Senior Features Writer Layla Nicholson climbed the Santorini caldera where she remembers the ominous eight-word ...

"It appears that these magma bodies exist beneath volcanoes over their whole lifetime, not just during an active state." The magma chambers discovered in the current study aren't poised to cause ...

Active lava flows now cover approximately 15-20 percent of the crater floor,” the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. With the eruption comes multiple health hazards ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago may finally be starting to reveal their secrets. UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Scientists in Iceland say there is an increasing likelihood that a volcano, which has erupted several times since the end of 2023, will spring to life once again as magma ...

The current seismic activity does not coincide with the locations of the volcanic centres.' Instead, the tremors have been mapped to an exceptionally seismically-active region of the Aegean Sea ...

When this pressure is released, for example as a result of plate movement, magma shoots to the surface causing a volcanic eruption. Above the ground the liquid rock is called lava and as it cools ...