Video captured by a USGS live stream shows a bright red lava flow shooting from the earth, emerging from Kilauea's 42nd episode of an eruption that began in December 2024. Resulting smoke plumes ...

A team of researchers from the University of Trento spotted what appears to be an underground lava tube on Venus, the first subsurface feature ever detected on the volcanic world. The findings, ...

A team of researchers has identified what appears to be a massive underground lava tube on Venus, roughly 1 kilometer wide, hidden beneath the western flank of a shield volcano called Nyx Mons. The ...

Scientists studying Kīlauea found that a major 2018 earthquake may have paused slow fault slip for nearly 60 years beneath the volcano.

I don’t know whether my life would have turned out differently if I had more access to science at an early age. Nevertheless, ...

A massive, iron-rich structure sitting at the base of Earth’s mantle beneath the Hawaiian Islands may be doing more than ...

What may look like a single volcanic eruption is usually the visible outcome of far more complicated activity taking place underground. Beneath the surface, magma can migrate, cool, mix, and ...

Volcanoes may look like simple mountains that erupted once and then fell silent, but in reality they are often the surface expression of complex processes happening deep underground. Magma can move, ...

There’s a particular kind of magic in standing on sand that feels like an entirely different world, with grains of volcanic ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive underground lava tube hidden beneath the surface of Venus, revealing a new layer of the planet’s volcanic history. By reexamining radar data from NASA’s ...

“Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano.” One scientist was stung by over 150 insects over 35 years. Why?

New orbital data reveal that the most recently active volcanic systems on Mars weren’t simple one-off blasts into space.