Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano has long drawn attention for its size, constant activity, and glowing plumes of smoke and ash, yet for decades scientists did not fully understand what was happening deep ...

Location of the approximately 500 seismic stations that were installed in the Eifel region between September 2022 and August 2023 as part of the “Large-N Experiment” in order to obtain the highest ...

What may look like a single volcanic eruption is usually the visible outcome of far more complicated activity taking place underground. Beneath the surface, magma can migrate, cool, mix, and ...

A team of researchers has identified what appears to be a massive underground lava tube on Venus, roughly 1 kilometer wide, hidden beneath the western flank of a shield volcano called Nyx Mons. The ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

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Deep beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean, nearly a mile underwater, one of the most fascinating volcanoes in the world is preparing to erupt. Axial Seamount, located roughly 300 miles off the coast ...

Typically, we expect volcanoes to spew molten rock and lava when they erupt. In Upstate New York, they erupt with ice. One of the state's most incredible semi-natural wonders is Letchworth's Ice ...