Natural disasters, from wildfires, floods and mudslides in western states to large earthquakes in Japan, have rocked, burned and flooded parts of the world in the first months of 2025. What’s ...

Tiny glass beads brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 astronauts are helping scientists uncover new clues about how the moon erupted billions of years ago. No one expected these glittering bits among the ...

When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...

The family of Juliana Marins, the Brazilian tourist who was found dead after she fell from a cliff during a hike on an active ...

The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only volcano in the range.

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the hidden force tearing it apart.

The world's largest volcano: Mauna Loa, which rises 30,000 feet (9,000 meters) above the seafloor. ... But in some places, geological processes cause parts of the crust to melt.

There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that we could use to precisely date the activity of another planet's volcano for ...

This photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, captured during a Hawaiian Volcano Observatory helicopter flyover Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, shows the eruption in Kilauea's middle East Rift Zone ...

As part of the National Volcano Early Warning System, the USGS has spent time expanding and upgrading volcanic monitoring networks within the Cascade Range and elsewhere.

Back in 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey set out to determine just that, assigning a “threat level” to all 169 potentially active volcanoes in the United States.

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii – One of the world’s most active volcanoes is erupting again in a remote part of a Hawaii national park.. Kilauea erupted briefly Sunday night in an area ...