A volcano erupts in southwestern Iceland and spews magma in a spectacular show of Earth’s power ...

Mount Etna draws magma from a deep reservoir 50 miles underground, reshaping how scientists understand its eruptions and ...

Scientists reveal how Earth flipped into an ice age 350 million years ago, uncovering a major shift in the planet’s ancient ...

A new geological study reshapes the timeline of a major tectonic collision that helped form the Andes, suggesting key events ...

The Yellowstone supervolcano Yellowstone supervolcano, which lies underneath a 30–by–45–mile crater Yellowstone Caldera, has ...

Booker first visited Roden Crater, the secluded observatory of world-renown artist James Turrell, in 2020. It has inspired ...

At a time of fewer protections for public lands, residents of Prescott devise a new playbook to preserve the Granite Dells as ...

Now, a new paper suggests that the Farallon plate is still making its presence felt far from the coasts, powering one of ...

We know very little about the processes that lead to a reeruption of supervolcanoes such as the mostly underwater Kikai caldera in Japan (pictured) and are therefore ill-equipped to make predictions.

Volcanoes erupt because hot, melted rock from deep inside the Earth finds a way to reach the surface. This melted rock is called magma, and it forms when parts of the Earth’s mantle become so hot that ...