Olympus Mons, Mars' immense shield volcano, towers 21 kilometers above its surface, dwarfing Earth's Mount Everest. Covering ...

The over 8-meter (more than 26-foot) wide Gemini telescope, which NASA notes is one of the world’s most advanced ...

In 2021, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa traveled on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a 12-day self-funded round trip to ...

What's more, you'll spend one night at Volcano House, a hotel on the rim of Kilauea. (When the shield volcano is active, you can take a nighttime stroll to see the lava flow.) Travelers say the ...

Choosing your volcano wisely. Not all volcanoes are created equal for every adventurer. Some provide gentle hikes with ...

The intense seismicity and ground deformation along the East Rift Zone of Kilauea in the past couple of months is interpreted ...

History suggests another potential effect that could accompany continued intrusions is seismicity beneath the south flank of ...

Geologists can use cosmic rays from outer space to piece together the timing of past geologic events, like volcanic eruptions ...

In 2021, seismic activity from an underwater volcano near Tokyo, Japan, caused two dozen “ghost ships” to rise from the ...

Iceland is one of the world's most volcanically active places I'm in one of the world's volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano. A short distance away I can see the rim of ...

Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals ...