Geoscientists have long thought that water -- along with shallow magma stored in Earth's crust -- drives volcanoes to erupt. Now, thanks to newly developed research tools, scientists have learned that ...

The magma that erupts from basaltic volcanoes in the middle of tectonic plates originates from within Earth's mantle — rather than from the outer crust — and is propelled upward by CO2, not water.

Scientists working with shield volcanoes in the Galapagos Archipelago have found evidence to suggest that volcanoes which ordinarily produce slow-moving rivers of fire have the potential to create far ...

An international team of volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago has found that volcanoes which reliably produce small basaltic lava eruptions hide chemically diverse ...

July 29 (UPI) --New research suggests a surprising diversity of magma types, including potentially explosive magma, can be found hiding within the pipes of seemingly reliable volcanoes. Some volcanoes ...

Fresh lava looks like the last place anything could live, yet biologists are now finding microbial communities moving in ...

When you think of a Yellowstone eruption, you probably picture a massive, caldera-forming explosion. But new research is shifting that focus, revealing that the supervolcano's most recent known ...

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...