A dramatic undersea eruption off Japan's Iwoto island rewrote the map of the Pacific, birthing a brand-new volcanic islet in late 2023 more than 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo. The explosive event, ...

A major Yellowstone eruption likely won’t happen for thousands, and potentially millions, of years. Scientists say that the ...

"Explosive volcanism could repeatedly seed low latitudes with ice and ash, producing buried or insulated ice deposits that help explain the excess hydrogen signals measured near the equator." When you ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...