When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing.

Beneath the ocean’s surface, something extraordinary is happening — a silent ridge is shaking over 1,000 times a day. But there’s no eruption… yet. Meet Axial Seamount, a restless underwater volcano ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. The Toba supereruption ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. This article was ...

A Giant Underwater Volcano Is Rumbling Off the Oregon Coast — Here’s What You Need to Know Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, a massive volcano named Axial Seamount is showing signs of life. With tremors ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

Albert Einstein once said, “We still do not know one thousandth of one per cent of what nature has revealed to us.” And a lot of it is stranger than fiction. Sometimes, Mother Nature can be a complete ...

Live view of Kilauea, Hawaii’s most active volcano. The volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii has been erupting on-and-off since December.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

This intriguing astronaut photo shows two volcanic lakes appearing to peer into space from a skull-like peninsula in Nicaragua, like a pair of heterochromatic googly eyes. This unusual scene, which is ...

A hidden world of quantum metrologists ensure that everyday devices perform safely and correctly, but their work is never done ...

Government scientists confirmed Mount St. Helens is not erupting despite recent concerns. Commercial pilots reported seeing what they believed to be ash near the volcano. Strong winds are lifting old ...