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 ...

A brutal Arctic blast has turned parts of the Eastern United States into a deep freeze, and along at least one frozen shoreline the cold has sculpted something that looks straight out of science ...

What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep beneath the surface, ...

Scientists in Mexico documented a number of changes inside El Chichón during monitoring between June and December 2025.

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

The recent earthquake swarm near Santorini has brought the topic of volcanoes in Greece back into the spotlight.

This month something extraordinary happened in the west of New York state: a huge ‘’ice volcano’’ in the Letchworth State Park. Opposite to a regular volcano ...

Volcanic soil is toxic in just about every way. But these worms have remarkably homogenous DNA.

More than a million giant skate eggs are discovered incubating in the heat of an underwater Pacific Ocean volcano.