One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action. The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

While the town around him was engulfed by searing pyroclastic flows, one man achieved the impossible from a prison cell with ...

Archaeologists uncover a lavish private bathhouse in Pompeii, revealing the city's opulence and the tragic final moments of ...

Scientists in Norway have found blue rings in trees that hint at how volcanic eruptions disrupted growth throughout history. When scientists test tree samples to study the ages through their rings, ...

After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years ... for a series called Pompeii: The New Dig. An ...

I have never been a science guy. While I admit the Earth is round (or so the media would have me tell you), I never developed ...

The volcano, named Axial Seamount, sits on the Juan de Fuca Ridge about 300 miles off the coast of Astoria, Oregon. In the last 30 years, Axial has erupted three times — in 1998, 2011 ...

What is the hottest volcano of them all? It depends on how you define “hottest,” but a fascinating new analysis crunches the numbers in a few different ways, using satellite observations of 95 of ...

Another viable alternative to concrete blocks and related materials is volcanic stones, which can be chipped into regular building blocks. This is the most common building material in Kenya.

Since 1997, scientists have kept a careful eye on it using instruments that measure pressure on the ocean floor. Data shows that the volcano has been swelling, with changing rates that hint at an ...

Thousands of civilians in a remote part of northeastern Ethiopia are being evacuated after potentially dangerous volcanic activity, officials said Friday. The evacuations come after steam ...