I n 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. While surveying ...

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...

Hidden in the stormy Furious Fifties, the South Sandwich Islands generate spectacular cloud formations. Winds sweeping past ...

In 2019, researchers spotted what they believed to be a 'petit-spot volcano' on the Pacific plate. These 'petit-spot' volcanoes are young phenomena that come into being due to fissures occurring ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory said signs indicated a Mount Spurr eruption was likely, though not certain, in the weeks or ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption ...

Scientists found that volcanic eruptions triggered short-lived oxygen spikes before Earth's air became breathable.

The volcanoes that form where tectonic plates are pulling apart are now seen at midocean ridges, which are places under the ocean where two pieces of crust move away from each other. Two major ...

Several past eruptions were characterized by similar lava fountaining episodes, including at the start of the Puʻuʻōʻō ...

"Ocean volcanoes, when they are unstable, can collapse catastrophically and generate a tsunami," said Christelle Wauthier, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State and co-author of the study.