An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found.

The Black Diamond Pool, in Yellowstone's Biscuit Basin, blew up on Saturday evening. The area has been closed to the public ever since a ...

Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna on Sicily, is erupting again, sending tourists running away from a huge plume of ash and smoke in the air and lava flowing down its slope.

Italy's Mount Etna has erupted, with large plumes of ash and smoke seen rising from the volcano. Images and video from the ...

A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office confirms that offshore wind is expensive, environmentally damaging ...

Mount St. Helens erupted, killing dozens and forever changing how the US monitors earthquakes. The volcano is still active but not erupting.

indicating a useful relationship between the amount of splitting and the size of the eruption. Co-author Professor Toshiko Terakawa (Nagoya University) noted, "The focal mechanisms of volcano ...

In the new study, a team from Cornell University and the USGS studied six volcanoes of various size and dormancy status within the Cascade Range in the northwestern United States—Lassen Peak ...

An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that ... “I am still surprised that an eruption of this size went unreported,” Hutchison added. “Perhaps there are reports of ash fall ...

The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull National Park ... On the scale volcanologists use to measure the size of explosive eruptions, Askja is capable of one equivalent to ...

In addition, the largest volcano in the solar system measures nearly three times the size of Mt. Everest. In the following slides, you'll discover the largest volcano in the solar system and find ...