Earthquakes remind us that even the ground beneath our feet can have a mind of its own. For Anchorage citizens, that reality shook to life as the city hosted not one, but two earthquakes mere hours ...

Over geological timescales, lava can flood the planet's surface, filling in craters and creating a more youthful appearance than Venus' true age of 4.5 billion years.

An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon that was forecast to erupt sometime this year doesn’t look imminent, according ...

Although researchers did predict the Axial Seamount would erupt in 2025, people on the Pacific coast shouldn't worry about ...

Water — H₂O — that originates from the atmosphere, including snow and rain, is called “meteoric water.” The large amounts of ...

Venus also has thousands of active volcanoes, but the mechanism of the planet's geological activity is still a mystery. A team from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has a novel suggestion.

Understand the Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically active zone with over 75% of the world's volcanoes. Learn how it impacts the U.S. and what scientists are doing to prepare.

Simon Carn, a world authority on satellite-powered analysis of global volcanic activity, is the winner of the 2024 Michigan Technological University Research Award. Carn has scaled many mountains ...

Scientists said the Kilauea Iki (1959) and Maunaulu eruptions (1969) featured similar episodes. Both cases were caused by temporary obstructions within the eruptive vents, usually a collapsed part of ...

Scientists nicknamed this stage of geological history, and others like it, Snowball Earth. What exactly froze the planet nearly solid has been a mystery, as has how it remained that way for 56 ...

Yet Venus does not have plate tectonics, so it cannot renew its surface in the same way that Earth does over geological time periods. What Venus does have is volcanoes, and a lot of them — more ...