Episode 47 of the ongoing eruption at Kīlauea summit began Thursday afternoon with lava fountaining from the north vent in ...

While many science books would have you believe the Earth's lower mantle—the layer deep below the crust—is smooth, it's actually made up of a mountainous-like topography that moves and changes just ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused by mantle plumes that rise from shifting underground mountains deep within ...

A major Yellowstone eruption likely won’t happen for thousands, and potentially millions, of years. Scientists say that the magma underneath Yellowstone is mostly solid and not eruptible. One study ...

Volcanoes can have a major impact on rainfall around the world, according to a recent study by Princeton University. New research published in Nature Geoscience shows that large volcanic eruptions can ...

Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) represent some of the most prodigious volcanic events in Earth history, characterised by the rapid emplacement of vast volumes of predominantly basaltic magma onto the ...