Olympus Mons, on the planet of Mars, is the largest and youngest volcano in the solar system. Found in the Tharsis Montes region near the Martian equator, it is one of a dozen large volcanoes ...

Kilauea is a highly active shield volcano, estimated to be between 210,000 and 280,000 years old, having emerged from the sea about 100,000 years ago. Its last major eruption occurred between May ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

Volcanoes that have laid dormant for millions of years could revolutionize the sourcing of important rare earth elements, a new study published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters suggests.

Earth’s extinct volcanoes might be an untapped source of highly in-demand rare earth elements. A set of lab-based experiments revealed that some of these 17 elements could be lurking in the ...

Here’s hoping it’s nothing to blow your lid over. A normally quiet “high threat” volcano in Washington state has been rumbling at a record rate — prompting an alert from geologists who ...

A new volcano that has been belching smoke and bad smells on San Benedicto Island, off the west coast of Mexico, probably blew its top two months ago. In July the Navy SOFAR (sound fixing and ...

Unexplored iron-rich magma could help power current and future technologies Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent Within the deposits of extinct volcanoes around the world, a mysterious magma may ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised on June 3 the status of Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island to Alert Level 2 due to "increasing unrest." ...

Revisions to the special measures law for responding to volcanic activities will result in a new task force being formed next spring to monitor and study active volcanoes. A volcanic disaster by ...

Extinct volcanoes could be a "rich" source of rare metals used in smartphones and flat-screen televisions, according to a new study. Get any of our free email newsletters — news headlines ...