One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a ...

Mount Hekla in Iceland, known as 'the chimney of hell' by medieval Christians, has been considered a gateway to the ...

Researchers Discover an Adorable Baby Volcano Under the Ocean, Say It Erupted 3 Million Years Ago In 2019, researchers ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

A massive seafloor eruption at Axial Seamount could reshape Earth in 2025, with hundreds of daily earthquakes signaling an ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, the Jovian moon Io.

Earth bubbles and broils beneath an underwater peak called Axial Seamount, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off Oregon's ...

The rocks that make up the stunning deep valley ... This massive collection of basalt columns is linked to a volcanic fissure eruption. That's when a fissure in the Earth's crust lets the contents ...

spreading along a fissure that follows the undersea ridge. As more and more lava oozes out, large flows more than 100 metres thick will likely flatten out around the volcano, opening up new ...

Visitors may encounter unstable ground, sharp volcanic rocks, and hidden lava tubes that pose risks ... as a series of explosive fissure eruptions occurred.

But Iceland is also located over a mantle plume – a column of hot, molten rock that rises ... at the Fagradalsfjall volcano. In late 2023 and early 2024, new volcanic fissures formed near ...