The picturesque Eldhraun Lava Field in Iceland is home to one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions and biggest lava flow in the world. From the U.S. to India, the destruction affected climates ...

A research team from Skoltech, the Institute of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Problems of Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other scientific organizations in Russia and the U.S ...

Northern Arizona’s San Francisco Volcanic Field is a prominent geological landmark in the Southwest. Comprised of about 1,800 square miles, it is the location of more than 600 volcanic vents in ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian ...

Through the Horizon 2020-funded IMPROVE project, European scientists are deploying cutting-edge tools to reveal the Earth's ...

As another school year ends, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory welcomes two new summer interns: Kamalani Poepoe and Ruth ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

The Boring Volcanic Field consists of 80 known volcanic vents. More vents likely exist but were buried by the Missoula floods about 15,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a ...

As another school year ends, the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory welcomes two new summer interns: Kamalani Poepoe and Ruth Gale. With an ongoing eruption at the summit of Kīlauea, ...