The Beemerville Volcano gets its name from a section of Wantage, but also is known as Rutan Hill. Space Farms Zoo and Museum, ...

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate.

A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...

How do volcanoes work? What happens beneath their surface? What causes the vibrations—known as tremor—that occur when magma ...

For decades, the colossal Taftan volcano of eastern Iran appeared a lifeless piece of history. It towered nearly 13,000 feet ...

Massive volcanic eruptions billions of years ago may have made it snow on Mars, leaving thick buried ice near the planet’s ...

A study reveals the existence of pockets of magma beneath the volcanoes of the Cascade Range, with no signs of imminent eruptions.

For centuries, the Moon has inspired mystery and myth. But where did it truly come from? New scientific discoveries are shedding light on the Moon’s dramatic formation 4.5 billion years ago. Through ...

A volcano in southern Iran thought to have been extinct for some 710,000 years has stirred.

Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, is erupting for a second straight day, spewing towering ...

Some volcanoes, such as the Cascade volcanoes up in Washington and Oregon, are of the type called a stratovolcano. These steep volcanoes sometimes erupt explosively and other times have calmer lava ...