A remotely controlled research vessel has gathered some of the first comprehensive measurements from within the massive ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes. Only the U.S. (168) and Russia (144) have more. Essential packing list: We landed ...

June 13, 2024 — Video footage of Iceland's 2010 Eyjafjallaj kull eruption is providing researchers with rare, up-close observations of volcanic ash clouds -- ... Earth Scientists Describe a New ...

Former Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri has invited Russia’s St. Petersburg University (SPBU) to conduct joint ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the most active in the world, is erupting again, prompting a volcano watch alert in surrounding areas, according to officials. The eruption is occurring within a ...

Hikers barely escaping an eruption on Dukono in Indonesia in August 2024. Credit: screen capture, PVMBG. Volcanoes are dangerous. Even when they aren't hurling rocks, ash and lava at you, they can ...

Satellite data suggest a volcano in Tanzania that expels extremely runny lava could be creeping toward an eruption.

Volcanoes were still erupting on the moon when dinosaurs roamed Earth, new research suggests. The evidence, three tiny glass beads plucked from the surface of the moon and brought to Earth in 2020 ...

updating previous assessments that there had been no active lunar volcanoes for about 4 billion years. The researchers examined about 3,000 lunar glass beads, which can come from volcanic ...

A new volcano has been spotted on Jupiter's moon Io, the most geologically active place in the solar system. Analysis of the first close-up images of Io in over 25 years, captured by the JunoCam ...

Their chemical makeup indicates that there were active lunar volcanoes until about 120 million years ago, much more recent than scientists thought. An earlier analysis of the rock samples from the ...