Few geological scenarios capture public imagination quite like a full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. The ...

What may look like a single volcanic eruption is usually the visible outcome of far more complicated activity taking place underground. Beneath the surface, magma can migrate, cool, mix, and ...

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, ...

The teenager was researching the Miura-ori fold when Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and wildfires raged in Southern California. “I thought maybe these origami patterns, which are strong and ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive underground lava tube hidden beneath the surface of Venus, revealing a new layer of the planet’s volcanic history. By reexamining radar data from NASA’s ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...

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

As part of Juno’s extended mission, the spacecraft is making close encounters of Jupiter’s large Galilean moons after having spent most of its mission away from them. During future fly-bys of Io, Juno ...

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that are expelled during eruptions and then dissipate over time as the volcanoes ...

MOUNT ETNA, Italy (AP) — Guides who take tourists to enjoy the striking views of Sicily’s Mount Etna are up in arms over tougher restrictions imposed by local authorities after a round of eruptions at ...