Kīlauea has erupted episodically within the summit caldera since Dec. 23, 2024. Episode 44 of summit lava fountaining ...

Past “Volcano Watch” articles have summarized the episodic lava fountaining eruptions in Kilauea’s recent history—within the ...

Geochemical analysis of erupted tephra samples over the past decade help scientists understand the temperature of Kilauea’s shallow magma system under the summit — and things have been “heating up!” ...

Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates.

U.S. Geological Survey volcano alert level — an indication of ground-based status of volcanic activity — and aviation color ...

A new study led by University of Arizona researchers has uncovered how massive volcanic eruptions in the Andes Mountains ...

Caltech researchers have identified geological features on Mars that could point to the existence of a long-dried ocean that ...

In 2010, construction workers on the Panamerican Highway traversing Chile's Atacama Desert stumbled upon a nearly perfectly preserved fossilized whale ...

The reservoir of one of Earth's most explosive volcanoes is quietly refilling with magma, scientists have revealed.

An archaeologist just overturned a major piece of evidence that humans reached South America before most of North America.

The most recent was a south vent overflow around 6 a.m. Monday morning. On Monday night, several periods of degassing-related ...

Ian McEwan’s recent novel, What We Can Know, is set in a semi-underwater Britain in the year 2119. A few decades on from a ...