The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spearheads Volcano Awareness Month each January on the Island of Hawaii. This year, in ...

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

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to people.

The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as extension continues along the rift, the rift valley will sink lower and ...

At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.

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 of a subsurface magma chamber out – with ...

When it does erupt, slow moving lava will likely emerge out of the caldera first, spreading along a fissure that follows the undersea ridge. As more and more lava oozes out, large flows more than ...

The active shield volcano has been continuously erupting since 1983 and is among the most active in the world. In 2018, an eruption destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced the evacuation of ...

About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica.

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

The volcano's most recent eruption — from August 2014 through to February 2015 — was the largest outbreak in Iceland for more than 300 years. The eruption began when a large fissure opened up ...