As a gargantuan plume of magma rises from the depths, tectonic forces are wrenching the island nation apart, triggering the ...

When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati. My grandfather joked that if I kept digging, I would end ...

Earth wasn't as violent as has long been believed during its early years, a study says. It was hospitable and the processes ...

Caltech researchers introduce a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to study earthquakes and ...

As we’ve just mentioned, obsidian is often thought of as being dark and opaque, but it can actually come in a whole bunch of ...

Dissolved carbon dioxide may have bubbled up from magma far below Earth's surface, contributing to prolonged warming.

Images snapped from space reveal lava streaming from a fissure in the ground in the area's seventh volcanic eruption within a ...

Since 2005 the Solfatara crater in Italy has been releasing increased volumes of gas, catching the attention of researchers ...

He imagines using such devices to, for example, predict when a volcano is about to erupt by sensing the flow of magma miles ...

China’s historic farside sample-return mission is providing intriguing insights into why the Moon’s farside is so different ...

Water is ubiquitous on Earth—about 70% of Earth's surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface and ...