Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

Livestream footage of the Kilauea volcanic eruption caught the moment a whirlwind impacted one of the cameras placed on the ...

Scientists have shed light on a thermal process in magma that may help explain why similar volcanic systems can produce very different eruptive behaviours.

A 2021 satellite photo shows an unusual series of concentric cloud rings that appeared directly above an erupting volcano on ...

Geologists are asking for the community's help in mapping fallen particles of glass and rock from Kīlauea's eruption.

Livestream footage of the Kilauea volcanic eruption caught the moment a whirlwind impacted one of the cameras placed on the ...

A fountainous Kilauea volcano eruption in Hawaii was accompanied by a small tornado-like vortex that spun up right next to ...

The discovery emerged from satellite observations of the eruption plume. Scientists detected an unusually large cloud of formaldehyde, a compound that commonly forms when methane is broken down in the ...

A brutal Arctic blast has turned parts of the Eastern United States into a deep freeze, and along at least one frozen shoreline the cold has sculpted something that looks straight out of science ...

People in parts of Papua New Guinea are facing an unusual problem. Floating volcanic rock is making boat travel difficult, ...

The South Pacific blast may have consumed its own methane — but using this idea against the greenhouse gas is controversial.