A truly remarkable quirk of the natural world - this volcano lights up the night sky in an iridescent blue when its sulphuric ...

Mauna Kea When you think of the tallest mountains, instinctively, Mount Everest comes to mind. But here's a shocker: Mauna ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

Lava flows from Episode 6, the latest eruptive event of the summit eruption that started at 11:28 p.m. Jan. 24 and ended at ...

A team of scientists exploring an underwater volcano have discovered that life below the seafloor is more thriving than we could have ever imagined. In a new article published in the scientific ...

That feature is Athabasca Valles, a system of valleys carved into volcanic plains on Mars ... This lava blankets the valley floor, walls, and much of the surrounding plains, obscuring older ...

covering roughly three million square miles in volcanic rock and causing sharp climate swings between hot and cold. “With such rapid release of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, soot and other ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient ...

Some of the volcanic rocks are up to 6 million years old, while others were left by eruptions that happened as recently as a few thousand years ago, according to the Global Volcanism Program at ...

Additionally, the porous volcanic rock plays a critical role in recharging aquifers that supply water to Northern California. Aerial view west across the upper part of Medicine Lake Volcano.

Kid Rock delivered a spirited four-song set as part of a "Make America Great Again" victory rally ahead of Donald Trump's Monday (Jan. 20) inauguration. The musician has been one of Trump's most ...

The newly mapped aquifer lies beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Cascades, acting like a giant, continental-sized lake stored in the mountains. “It is a continental-size lake stored in ...