Ethiopian volcano eruption: Hayli Gubbi is a shield volcano located in Ethiopia’s Afar Region, about 800 km from Addis Ababa.

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is part of the U.S. Geological Survey, the science agency of the U.S. Department of Interior. Our job is to obtain and share science-based information about the ...

Think about a mountain that keeps getting taller but never explodes. This might sound impossible, yet it happens more often than most people realize. Volcanoes don't always follow the same playbook of ...

Latitudinally corrected 3-GHz TA shown at midnight local time. (a) These data show a clear localized antenna temperature (TA) enhancement of about 9 degrees Kelvin centered on the mapped ...

The young man was found dead in a small room near the entrance to the Hall of the Augustales, a civic order of freedmen, a bit like a freemason lodge. Perhaps he was a security guard. He’s been ...

A giant mound near the Moon’s south pole appears to be a volcanic structure unlike any other found on the lunar surface, according to new research. The formation, known as Mafic Mound, stands about ...

A decrease in seismic activity while magma continues to accumulate underground in Iceland has left scientists unsure of what may happen next, including whether an eruption would occur in the area they ...

A new instrument type has discovered evidence of a volcanic process on the Moon that had only been seen on Earth. “Before the 1950’s, most scientists thought the craters on the Moon were from ...

A new instrument type has discovered evidence of a volcanic process on the moon that had only been seen on Earth. "Before the 1950's, most scientists thought the craters on the moon were from ...