Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...

Most people picture a volcano as something that either erupts spectacularly or sits dormant for centuries. The reality, at ...

Hawaii is a place of epic adventures, and the less-visited island of Kauai is home to one of the wettest mountains on Earth, ...

A submarine eruption north of Papua New Guinea may be building new land while satellites track its evolution from above.

In the early hours of June 13, a hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park’s Biscuit Basin sent several rocks ...

Mount Etna’s past eruptions reveal that a single volcano can erupt through very different underground pathways.

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava ...