The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

Scientists have assessed Yellowstone's chances of eruption by measuring electronic currents flowing deep within the Earth ...

Though the volcano’s magma chambers could hold enough material for a caldera-forming event, none of them are likely to erupt ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies ... suggest that an eruption does not completely drain a magma ...

What differentiates an active volcano ... magma, that meant increased likelihood of eruption," Pang said, "but now we are shifting perception that this is the baseline situation." The results suggest ...

A new study reveals that Hawai‘i’s two most active volcanoes, Kīlauea and Maunaloa, share the same source of magma deep within the Earth. For years, scientists believed these volcanoes had ...

When the volcano erupts, it likely won’t be cataclysmic — or even apparent to anyone above water. Since Axial Seamount is shaped from thin layers of lava, an eruption will likely crack open at the ...

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large ... eruption does not completely drain a magma chamber, instead, it lets off some of ...

Though immensely powerful, volcanoes are not always spewing hot ... These results suggest eruptions do not always completely drain a magma chamber. Instead, it will release some of the excess ...

All kinds of tomography have been employed at Yellowstone to give us a much richer understanding of the magma system that lies beneath the ground. Similar studies have been done at other volcanoes as ...