Rocky hills and cliffs line the Esterel Coast, French Riviera, France. These formations were shaped by ancient volcanic ...

The familiar gray disk in our sky has long been framed as a fossil world, frozen in time since the early days of the solar ...

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet aligned with the planet’s rotation axis. This is what makes a magnetic compass ...

Videos and photos show multiple fountains freezing at the parks as Orlando, Fla., reached a low of 24 degrees over the ...

A reconstruction of temperature in Colombia during the Pliocene, when CO2 levels were similar to today, suggests that parts of the tropics might soon experience more dramatic warming than previously ...

A research group has revealed through seismic wave analysis that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau—the ...

A hidden “tear” beneath the continents may have been fueling oceanic volcanoes for millions of years, study reveals.

A massive blob deep under Hawaii seems to be solid and iron-rich, new research finds. This blob — scientifically known as a ...

While previous research has proved that the ceramic waste/pozzolan combination can improve strength, predictive modeling and in-depth examination of the additives' ratio performance was lacking. The ...

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to forecast major eruptions? So far, the opportunity has been lacking. VEI-7 eruptions are rare: we have not seen one since Tambora in April 1815. To make a right ...

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

This map shows the tephra fall associated with episode 41 of Kilauea's episodic summit eruption, on Jan. 24. Tephra is a generic word for any material erupted by a volcano that travels through the air ...