A small crowd couldn’t dim the enthusiasm of Melissa Scruggs, Wichita State’s resident volcanologist, who excitedly introduced herself to the room before the free showing of “Fire of Love” on Thursday ...

New seismic imaging shows magma lingering beneath quiet Cascade volcanoes, shaping how scientists monitor and plan for ...

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to forecast major eruptions? So far, the opportunity has been lacking. VEI-7 eruptions are rare: we have not seen one since Tambora in April 1815. To make a right ...

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

Rock Island set a trap for the Moline boys basketball team on Friday and used that to not only beat the Maroons at Wharton Field House, but tie them for ...

In 1961, geologists Norm Peterson and Ed Groh published the first paper on Hole in the Ground, describing its volcanic origin ...

Author Tommy Orange rings in the New Year at the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii—and reflects on what we can learn from the land ...

As part of Juno’s extended mission, the spacecraft is making close encounters of Jupiter’s large Galilean moons after having ...

The bulge first appeared in 1996 and has now returned, but Yellowstone Volcano Observatory says there's no cause for alarm.

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — When Scott and Pamela Rippel found out scientists were predicting a fountain of lava would erupt in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Jan. 24, they extended their ...

A volcano in Russia's far east spews ash several kilometres into the sky, creating a spectacular display. The Shiveluch ...

Baby stars, teenage planets, and disappearing icebergs are all featured this week. Plus, a look back at a New Horizons image of Jupiter and Io, and a strange, elongated cloud on Mars.