A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

Hundreds of volcanoes and lava lakes on Jupiter’s moon Io are likely powered in the same way as Earth’s volcanoes.

The EU’s panel of science advisers has called for more research into geoengineering, to understand the feasibility – and potential risks – of trying to block out the sun to cool a warming earth. Solar ...

Nature gives us a stark reminder of how brutal and destructive it can be in photos of lava destroying parts of the Blue ...

Mount Kanlaon on the island of Negros in the Visayas continued to display "high activity" recording two ash emission events ...

Over the last 12 months, scientific news has ranged from the sublime to the offbeat. These were the most interesting science ...

About 87,000 people were being evacuated in a central Philippine region Tuesday after a volcano briefly erupted with a ...

Approximately 87,000 individuals are being evacuated as Mount Kanlaon in the central Philippines erupts, emitting a huge ash plume and streams of gas and debris. The alert level has been raised due to ...

A plume of hot ash and gases up to 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) high forced residents to seek shelter after a volcano in the ...

We've long believed that Venus was once more like Earth before it turned into a scorching, sulfurous planet. Not so, ...

Researchers analyzed 120 years of data from Kīlauea Volcano, uncovering century-spanning patterns of deformation and stress ...

Over 130 known volcanoes sit in Antarctica, many of which are below the ice itself, but a few are considered to be active.