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 ...

A new study reveals that Hawai‘i’s two most active volcanoes, Kīlauea and Maunaloa, share the same source of magma deep within the Earth. For years, scientists believed these volcanoes had completely ...

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, Earth scientists from the University of Hawai'i ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

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

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

Iceland is at the centre of yet another possible eruption after 130 earthquakes were recorded near one of the country's biggest volcanoes in just five hours.

The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, which began erupting on December 23, has entered its fourth eruptive episode this week, with lava fountains and flows erupting from the Kaluapele summit caldera. The ...

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 ...