By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

Mount Edgecumbe, located on Kruzof Island off the coast of Alaska, is a dormant volcano that has been quiet for over 800 years. Its last known eruption dates back to approximately 800 years ago, ...

This is the spectacular moment the Santiaguito volcano eruption was seen from the air in Guatemala. Dramatic footage, including drone and thermal imagery, shows glowing, red-hot rocks and thick plumes ...

Axial Seamount, a massive underwater volcano located nearly 300 miles off the Oregon coast, is showing signs of an imminent eruption. Now, scientists are sharing what to expect.

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

It appears that these magma bodies exist beneath volcanoes over their whole lifetime, not just during an active state.' ...

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that ...

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What differentiates an active volcano from a dormant one?While visible lava at the surface is an obvious indicator of activity, the long-standing ...