The effects of a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption could be significant for the US and the entire globe. Scientists have ...

It’s been the staple of various film or TV show plots, though some might remember it more specifically as being the devious ...

The world's biggest active volcano spans approximately 2,000 square miles and ascends about 13,600 feet above sea level - and ...

Written by Mark Stelten, deputy scientist-in-charge at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, the post analyzes the v olcano's ...

NASA scientists concocted an idea a decade ago to save the world from a civilization-ending eruption of the supervolcano underneath Yellowstone ...

Scientists will be drilling a 1.3-mile-deep borehole into an active volcano to tap into the potentially limitless energy from the magma ...

The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a full eruption. Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about.

Far less known is there was a time, nearly 200 million years before dinosaurs first roamed the Earth, when a volcanic eruption reshaped the landscape. “You don’t typically think of New Jersey ...

Including – the Viti crater. Its name is derived from the Icelandic for “hell” – and it was formed during a massive eruption in 1875. Parks and her colleagues closely monitor the ...

The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland’s central highlands, uncorked in an explosive eruption in 1875. Askja’s last eruption, in 1961, was milder ...

Elon Musk’s super PAC awarded two $1 million prizes to registered voters in Michigan and Wisconsin on Thursday, after being warned by the Justice Department that the payments might be illegal ...

The recent eruption at Nāpau Crater was the first on Kīlauea’s middle East Rift Zone in 6 years. We often remember the Pu‘u‘ō‘ō and Maunaulu eruptions when thinking about the middle ...