Far out in the Atlantic, Bermuda rises from the ocean as if it’s breaking the rules of geology. It sits on a broad hump in ...

Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia has reformed since a 1956 eruption destroyed its cone. Within the next decade, it ...

A large mass of granite that has been slowly releasing heat has been discovered buried beneath a crater on the Moon. This is ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

Scientists have discovered a “fire amoeba” capable of surviving temperatures typically impossible for complex life.

A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the rural northeast of Ethiopia erupted November 23. Afar Communication Bureau via Facebook A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption ...

The ash cloud drifted over northern India, causing some flight delays and cancellations, and continued toward China. By Lynsey Chutel A volcano that erupted in Ethiopia spewed an ash cloud that ...

Satellite images have captured a rare volcanic eruption that occurred Sunday at Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano, sending towering ash plumes toward Yemen and Oman. The eruption is the first recorded ...

Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia has been dormant for all of recorded history. A long-dormant volcano has just erupted for the first time in recorded history. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia's ...

A long-quiet volcano in Ethiopia spewed ash nine miles into the sky on Sunday, marking the first known major eruption from this volcano for more than 12,000 years. Under-studied and situated in ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...