Uturuncu, a dormant volcano in Bolivia, appeared to be getting ready to erupt following earthquakes and "sombrero" shaped ...

Olive Mullet reviews the book 'Adventures in Volcanoland' by Tamsin Mather in the latest Up and Down the River column ...

In a fascinating intersection of space exploration and Earth science, NASA’s Apollo astronauts once trained on the alien-like lava fields of Idaho’s Craters of the Moon, preparing to explore the ...

Scientists have studied Yellowstone National Park's magmatic system for years, but a new view of the magma chamber shows the ...

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

A new study shows a volcanic eruption of Yellowstone may be even less likely than we thought: Scientists have discovered a ...

The last time I wrote an article here, it was to talk about Afar Region volcanoes, and I promised more to come. This is still a project that I have in mind, but that will have to wait a little ...

Kenneth Sims and other research scientists recently discovered that mafic volcanism of Henrys Fork Caldera -- located in ...

Yellowstone's supervolcano appears to have a magma cap that vents pressure and reduces the chances of a massive eruption happening anytime soon.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.

In 2024, a cutting-edge sensing technology was deployed on a densely populated and volcanically active region in Iceland.