Some scientists think we can better understand volcanoes by learning how the gaseous vortexes emerge. By Carolyn Wilke Some volcanoes perform a rather subtle trick: blowing rings of vapor that waft ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

Analysis of the second confirmed interstellar comet to visit our solar system suggests that the alien body could be covered ...

Some volcanoes, such as the Cascade volcanoes up in Washington and Oregon, are of the type called a stratovolcano. These steep volcanoes sometimes erupt explosively and other times have calmer lava ...

The Foundation of Mountain Building Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the ...

This unexpected discovery could rewrite everything we know about comets and their behavior in space. The Discovery of ...

These ghostly hoops have been spotted above volcanic events around the world. But how they form has long been a mystery. Mount Etna—located in Catania, Italy—is one of the rare volcanoes that can blow ...

Scientists have discovered that shear forces inside rising magma can create gas bubbles long before pressure drops occur. The ...

A “fascinating” eruption is approaching as a sleeping giant underwater volcano stirs with seismic activity near America’s west coast. The seismic activity of Axial Seamount, a submerged volcano ...

Drone footage captured the moment a tornado was created over Iceland’s youngest volcano. Litli-Hrútur, or "Little Ram," formed from a fissure just three weeks ago on the Reykjanes Peninsula in the ...