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 ...

If you think Oregon is all rain and trees, the Oregon Outback Scenic Byway from La Pine to Lakeview is about to completely ...

A volcano rises from a quiet landscape, releasing a steady glow of lava that contrasts with the deep darkness of the ...

A colossal “cosmic volcano” has erupted in deep space, as a supermassive black hole in galaxy J1007+3540 roars back to life ...

Lava exploded more than 200 meters into the air as Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted on Thursday.

Located in Sicily, Mount Etna is Europe's most active volcano. Yet its origin remains largely enigmatic, as no existing ...

Volcanoes are Earth’s geologic architects. They’ve created more than 80 percent of our planet’s surface, laying the foundation that has allowed life to thrive. Their explosive force crafts mountains ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

When Jasper Baur was a freshman at New York's Binghamton University, his interests centered on earth sciences. Then he got ...

A new geodynamic model is reshaping how scientists understand supervolcanoes, revealing that their magma systems may be far more diffuse and dynamic than previously believed.

When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, ...