The Afar region in northeastern Africa could split over millions of years, forming a new ocean. Scientists monitor rifts, ...

Beacon Rock State Park near Stevenson, Washington is exactly that kind of place, and if you haven’t visited yet, you’re missing out on one of the Pacific Northwest’s most jaw-dropping natural wonders.

A planet's habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable ...

On a remote coral reef near Papua New Guinea, endless streams of bubbles rise from cracks in the seabed into the shallow ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess.

A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption in 12,000 years. The volcano, called Hayli ...

For decades, volcanologists believed that the primary trigger for explosive eruptions was a drop in pressure as magma rises ...

A low-pressure area over the Strait of Malacca and South Andaman Sea on 23rd November is expected to intensify into a ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

The Ethiopian volcanic eruption triggered an ash cloud at least 45,000 feet in height which was visible from space.

The deteriorating air quality sparked speculation that a volcanic event in Ethiopia may have contributed to Mumbai’s haze. The eruption of the Hayli Gubbi volcano generated an ash cloud carrying ...