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

Using a novel imaging technique for volcanoes that produces high-resolution pictures of seismic wave properties, a new study reveals a large, previously undetected body of mobile magma underneath ...

A new high-resolution simulation of Earth’s interior is reshaping how scientists explain the origin of tens of thousands of ...

A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still a geologically active planet. A research paper on the work, ...

In this study, we employed the method proposed by Lin and Jordan (2023) to invert frequency-dependent 1-D attenuation models for northern Taiwan. The resulting 1-D model was then utilized to ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site, which features 40,000 near-perfect hexagonal columns, formed roughly 60 million years ago ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused by mantle plumes that rise from shifting underground mountains deep within ...

Volcanic eruptions can have dramatic consequences. But how can we anticipate this phenomenon, which unfolds up to tens of kilometres beneath the surface? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), ...

Fig. 3. Lunar volcanic landforms. (A) Floor-fractured crater (44.3°E, 46.5°N), LRO WAC mosaic. (B) Lava flows in the southwestern Imbrium (330.4°E, 25.5°N), Apollo photograph AS15-M-1701. (C) Sinuous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laguna del Maule is a volcanic field in the Andes mountain range of Chile (Getty/iStock) A flurry of seismic activity that caused ...

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam. In the following weeks, water, boiling-hot ...