Mount Etna in Italy is one of the most well-studied volcanoes in the world. It has been erupting for thousands of years, and scientists have been observing it closely for decades.

A new analysis of gravitational-wave detections suggests that roughly 14% of merging binary black holes belong to a second ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole at its center. The jets stretch farther than the galaxy itself and spiral ...

The ocean wasn't the only thing making waves in the Philippines this week. On July 30th, Taal Volcano, one of the country's most active volcanoes, produced a dramatic phreatomagmatic eruption that ...

The World Cup 2026 opened on Thursday, June 11, with Mexico playing South Africa. It appeared the entire Africa turned out against our sister African country. In the 1990s, this would have been the ...

Deep-sea drilling ships, sea-floor sensors and repurposed Internet cables are helping scientists to study the last unmapped ...

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

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

Effusive volcanoes take a very different approach. Their main act is the outpouring of lava flows. While these can absolutely be destructive, their progress is usually slow enough to allow for ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...

The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...