A massive underwater volcano located approximately 300 miles off the coast of Oregon is on the verge of erupting, scientists ...

Camping in Hawaiʻi lets you sleep under the stars, listen to the ocean and wake up in nature all in the remotest place on earth.

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

The trails of cold water hurricanes leave in their wake are warming up faster, giving an energy boost to storms that follow ...

NASA's Juno mission finds a massive lava lake in Jupiter, offering new insights into volcanic activity beyond Earth and the ...

Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...

A 2024 satellite photo shows four end-to-end volcanoes perfectly spaced out along the Russian island of Simushir. One of ...

Located in a darkened part of the northeast Pacific Ocean, the submarine volcano has erupted ... The outermost layer of the lava flow will almost immediately cool and form a crust, but the interior of ...

The volcano, known as Axial Seamount, is more than 4,900 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean and 300 miles off ... a professor at the UW School of Oceanography. "Lava flows spread across the caldera ...

Billions of years ago, volcanic eruptions spread molten rock across the nearside. As the lava cooled, it trapped these heat-producing elements. They are still there, and they are still releasing heat.

Studies on these found that the lava lake interior, fed by 17 episodes during the 1959 Kīlauea Iki eruption, took decades to cool, resulting in crystallization of a variety of minerals.