Some places become famous because of what people build there. Yellowstone became famous because of what nature built beneath ...

We all know the plaster casts of Pompeii, haunting human snapshots of people caught in their final moments during the ...

In a recent study, researchers dated a historic lahar called the Electron Mudflow to the summer of 1507, establishing a way ...

A new docuseries and ongoing research are revealing that survivors charted a fresh start after an eruption devastated the ...

There are places in this world that make you question whether you’ve accidentally stumbled into a fantasy novel, and Wheeler ...

Seismic waves have revealed that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau was dramatically transformed by the ...

Two weeks ago, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology recorded three distinct, short-lived explosions in less than five minutes at Taal Volcano. The eruption sent a column of ash and ...

For more than a century, scientists have blamed Earth’s greatest mass extinctions on colossal volcanic eruptions that flooded the planet with lava and gas. A new study suggests that explanation is ...

In celebration of National Rock Day, learn how several rock specimens in the new exhibition “From These Lands” shed light on ...

Closely spaced volcanic plumes, surrounded by clouds, stream from a growing underwater volcanic platform in this natural-color image captured by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9 on May ...