One of the world's most active volcanoes erupted over 1,000 times in the first 19 days of 2025, producing ash clouds over two miles high.

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Kilauea's volcanic activity on Wednesday marked the fifth episode since the latest eruption began in December 2024.

Volcanic eruptions and cold summers leave lasting marks in the wood of northern trees, unlocking the secrets of past climate extremes.

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is erupting with fountains of lava. Check out a USGS livestream from within the Halema'uma'u crater.

Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual sacrifices ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

The aviation color code over the area has been changed from green to yellow as a precaution, the Icelandic meteorological ...

In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...

The location of a giant volcanic eruption in 1831 has eluded scientists for nearly 200 years, but now they have solved the mystery. The Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir Island in the Kuril Islands ...

The 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak Volcano, Kuril Islands, viewed from the International Space ... [+] Station. A new study says that a similar eruption was behind a cooling event with worldwide ...