Alphonse Kapuma Bannick was born into a name heavy with promise— “noble and eager for battle”—a meaning shaped by Germanic, ...

Most of the U.S. volcanoes that have been making themselves known since spring woke up a bit, shook themselves off and then ...

Hidden beneath the Philippine Sea, this colossal supervolcano features a caldera an impressive 150 km (93 mi) in diameter, making it the largest known caldera in the world, even larger than ...

The Great Dividing Range is one of the world’s longest and most fascinating mountain ranges, stretching across Australia from Queensland to Victoria. Unlike many mountain ranges that are the result of ...

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers on July 10, 2025, visited monitoring stations downwind of the Kīlauea summit ...

Where islands outnumber towns and coastlines fragment into thousands of pieces, here are the countries with the most islands ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

Scotland's dramatic volcanic landscape once rivalled the fiery activity of modern-day Hawaii, scientists have discovered.

Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 ...

The RattleCam is back! For the second year in a row, California Polytechnic State University and Dickinson College are live ...