When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...

VOLCANO -- The historic West Virginia boomtown of Volcano has come back to life - in miniature. Thanks to the efforts of local modeler Jimmie Bee of Parkersburg, the oil well operations and town of ...

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 ...

Some 66 million years ago, the world was dominated by dinosaurs, and then suddenly, it wasn't. The scientific consensus is that a catastrophic asteroid impact ended the Cretaceous era when it wiped ...

The volcanoes of Venus are still active today, with at least 37 areas showing recent activity, a new 3D model reveals. This simulation from the University of Maryland and the Institute of Geophysics ...

I played with the Erupting Cross-Section Volcano Model (Learning Resources). This set comes with an 11-inch model volcano. On the outside, the volcano has bright red and yellow colors demonstrating ...