When tens of thousands of earthquakes shook Santorini, the cause wasn’t just shifting tectonic plates—it was rising magma. Scientists tracked about 300 million cubic meters of molten rock pushing up ...

Teachers in the Tennessee Valley embraced free access to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, enhancing classrooms with innovative workshops and NASA resources.

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 ...

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

Few geological scenarios capture public imagination quite like a full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. The ...

In February 2026, social media users shared an image claiming to show a Truth Social post from U.S. President Donald Trump, in which he allegedly wondered why no one had tried plugging volcanoes with ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that are expelled during eruptions and then dissipate over time as the volcanoes ...

Inside an active <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/volcanoes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">volcano</a>, everything is moving: the rocks, magma, gas and aquifers. It ...

Volcanoes can erupt in many ways, sometimes blasting plumes of ash and other debris high into the atmosphere or sending rivers of lava downslope. If an eruption evacuates enough stored magma, the ...