What if the most telling indications of an impending volcanic eruption are buried deep under the ocean, or in a fleeting succession of tiny quakes that no one perceives? As volcanoes of the Pacific ...

Volcanic eruptions can destroy essential infrastructure, ground air traffic for days, wipe out entire cities, disrupt the climate for years, and even wipe out life on Earth, so it's important to know ...

Most of the U.S. volcanoes that have been making themselves known since spring woke up a bit, shook themselves off and then ...

A volcano in Alaska that last erupted in 1867 is displaying signs of rumbling. Located roughly 140 miles southwest of Anchorage, Iliamna has been dormant for over a century. But on June 15, the Alaska ...

Scientists are warning that glaciers melting due to global warming could trigger volcanic eruptions around the world.

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Scientists uncover why "stealth" volcanoes stay silent until eruption Veniaminof, Alaska, has frequent unexpected eruptions -- modeling how they happen could help us protect people from unexpected ...

Scientists are using satellite data to monitor tree health near volcanoes. Trees absorb volcanic carbon dioxide, which makes them greener. NASA's AVUELO project and other satellites track these ...

Kenneth Sims and other research scientists recently discovered that mafic volcanism of Henrys Fork Caldera -- located in eastern Idaho and west of Yellowstone National Park -- occurred concurrently ...

This volcanism and the coeval plutonism evolved from high-K tholeiitic and calc-alkaline to shoshonitic and ended with a silica-saturated sodic alkaline magmatism, and its evolution were developed ...

Space Volcanoes Tell the Explosive History of Mars, Venus, and Multiple Moons Take a tour of the space volcanoes on other planets and moons across the Solar System, and find out how they differ from ...