When referred to as a gas, it means a volatile has transitioned into the vapor phase. The most common gases (or vapor phase volatiles) emitted at the surface are water (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and ...

Volcanoes may look like simple mountains that erupted once and then fell silent, but in reality they are often the surface expression of complex processes happening deep underground. Magma can move, ...

In volcanoes, fluid inclusions are dominantly composed of CO 2. At magmatic temperatures (1200˚ C or 2192˚ F), the density of the CO 2 strongly depends on pressure, which is influenced by the depth of ...

Research shows Mars volcanoes erupted as recently as 50 million years ago, with underground magma chambers that cooked for 9 million years.

While the chance for an eruption is extremely low, the supervolcano is still likely to blame. A 2025 study from the United States Geological Survey determined that Yellowstone’s magma chamber ...

What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep beneath the surface, ...

How to make a model volcano erupt is a popular and exciting topic for school science projects because it clearly demonstrates ...

Kilauea has been erupting episodically within the summit caldera since Dec. 23, 2024. Its USGS Volcano Alert level is WATCH.

Ross Edgley was 950 miles into his 1,000-mile swim around the coast of Iceland when his body began to fall apart. Trapped off the south-west coast, near Grindavik, pinned between an erupting volcano, ...

Due to a weird quirk of geology, New Mexico's Bandera Volcano Ice Cave never warms above 31 degrees Fahrenheit, even when ...

Five volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io erupted simultaneously, spewing a mind-boggling amount of lava onto the surface and giving us clues to what may lie underneath ...

The sixth chapter of Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined brings your heroes to yet another new world called Emberdale, and an ominous ...