A magnitude-3.9 earthquake rattled the Big Island, striking from nearly 20 miles below sea level the night of Oct. 2 in Kaʻū.

Simon Carn, a world authority on satellite-powered analysis of global volcanic activity, is the winner of the 2024 Michigan Technological University Research Award. Carn has scaled many mountains ...

Those impacts generated lots of heat, which the planet has held onto for billions of years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Venus ...

The models can help local authorities and communities by evaluating the potential for collapse long before ground may give ...

Did you know the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean, has about 750 to 915 active or dormant ...

“Glaciers tend to suppress the volume of eruptions from the volcanoes beneath them. But as glaciers retreat due to climate change, our findings suggest these volcanoes go on to erupt more frequently ...

Kilauea, the second largest volcano in Hawaii, began erupting on Wednesday after a three-month pause, U.S. Geological Survey officials said. The survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said in a ...

Venus may be Earth's sister planet, but astronomers made that connection before knowing what this nearby world was really like. It has clouds of sulfuric acid and surface temperatures hot enough to ...

A collaborative research team led by University of Tasmania scientists has returned from a major 54-day voyage on CSIRO ...

Venus' youthful appearance could be the result of a ferocious bombardment by asteroids and comets, whose high-energy impacts superheated the planet's interior, a new study reports. Planetary ...