For more than a century, scientists have blamed Earth’s greatest mass extinctions on colossal volcanic eruptions that flooded the planet with lava and gas. A new study suggests that explanation is ...

Hovering over the volcano, a buzzing drone pauses in front of a laser beam on the crater's edge as researchers test whether ...

A newly discovered underwater volcanic eruption north of Papua New Guinea is unfolding in one of the world's most poorly mapped ocean basins. Satellites have spotted steam plumes, ash, thermal ...

Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A ...

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau erupted in early July, shooting towering columns of ash hundreds of metres into the sky, but a ...

Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano sitting roughly 300 miles off the Oregon coast, is inflating toward the same ...

After choosing cryogenic preservation to escape terminal cancer, one man awakens 500 years later in a world that appears to ...

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.

SpaceX’s IPO was predictably a success, making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. He reiterated his goal of traveling to Mars and settling there. There have been many instances in the past of ...