With the lightest touch, this plant bursts open, flinging its seeds through the air. Here’s how it evolved this biological ...

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals active volcanoes on Io in unprecedented detail thanks to an innovative technique.

When volcanic debris starts behaving like weather, a landscape can change in a single morning. At Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Kīlauea’s latest summit episode left overlooks, roadside edges, ...

A new detection method called “Jerk” could dramatically improve how scientists forecast volcanic eruptions. By using a single broadband seismometer, the system can detect extremely subtle ground ...

Scientists discovered Hawaii’s deep mantle plume is splitting, which may create two future volcanic island chains.

I n its latest eruption event, Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano sent a fountain of lava 540 meters (1,770 feet) up into the sky in what is a new record for this eruption, which began in December 2024. Some of ...

This image taken by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite captures lava, ash, and gases flowing from Mayon, the most active volcano in the Philippines, Mayon is ...

Officials say the latest eruption at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has sent lava shooting up to 1,000 feet high, prompting ...

The Volcano Observatory Notice to Aviation (VONA) is a notification product used by volcano observatories globally to inform the aviation community (pilots, air traffic managers, dispatchers, ...

The Echinus Geyser is a hot spring located in Norris Geyser Basin at Yellowstone National Park, measuring around 660 feet (200 metres) across. During the 1970s it would erupt for up to 90 minutes at a ...

A man died shortly after being airlifted on Feb. 27 out of a closed-off area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park which is known to be dangerous. Park personnel responded to an incident on the east side ...