When astronomers first cataloged some of the closest orbiting rocky exoplanets, they wrote them off as bare, airless cinders, ...

Kīlauea has been erupting episodically since Dec. 23, 2024, primarily from two vents (north and south) in Halema‘uma‘u.

When it last awoke in 2014, Bardarbunga produced Iceland’s biggest eruption in more than 200 years, spewing out fountains of lava hundreds of feet high. Scientists in Iceland have their eyes on this ...

A massive volcano hidden beneath the Pacific is swelling again, but its predicted eruption never came. Scientists are now ...

Mount Semeru in East Java erupted again on January 1, 2026, with an ash column reaching 900m. Its activity level is Level III ...

Massive continents collide, the Earth’s crust crumbles and is pulled back into the mantle, melts down into magma, and is ...

James Webb observations show TOI-561b, an ultra-hot rocky exoplanet, has a thick atmosphere that redistributes heat.

So. It’s December 31, and that means one thing: that the world – and specifically, Axial Seamount, the volcano lying on the ...