The 2022 underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, one of the most powerful in modern history, reached all the way into the atmosphere and beyond — shaking space as far up as satellites orbiting ...

Mount Spurr, a volcano 78 miles from Anchorage, is being monitored for signs of a possible eruption. If it blows, Mount Spurr ...

Chinese researchers traced 2023 Icelandic volcanic emissions to Arctic smog, showing 80% of Ny-Ålesund’s sulfur dioxide came ...

New research shows the blast triggered secondary gravity waves that rattled the upper atmosphere, where satellites orbit.

Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...

Imagine a world where the Americas were not connected—a time when wild Pacific waters crashed against scattered islands, and ...

In 2024, a cutting-edge sensing technology was deployed on a densely populated and volcanically active region in Iceland.

The Reykjanes Peninsula at Iceland's southwestern edge is one of the country's most populated regions, and it is also one of ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm and dry weather, ...

A comprehensive inventory of rivers on Alba Mons on Mars reveals a prolonged history of erosion and development into mature ...

Strangest of all, scientists have found that its gusts of gas are loaded with tiny crystals of metallic gold, no larger than 20 micrometers. Over the course of a single day, it's estimated that the ...