Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active ...

About 290 miles off the coast of Cannon Beach, Oregon, lies an underwater volcano called Axial Volcano. Axial erupts about once every ten years. Twice in the past year, news outlets have reported that ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Several hundred volcanoes lie dormant beneath the Eifel in western Germany. They are typical examples of what is known as distributed volcanic fields. To better understand their formation and activity ...

A deep-sea exploration off the coast of Hawaii has revealed a striking natural formation on the Pacific seafloor that’s left marine scientists momentarily speechless: a structure resembling a “yellow ...

Rising more than twice the height of Mount Everest, Olympus Mons dominates the landscape of Mars and holds the title of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

A recent study, published in Nature Astronomy, identified geologically recent volcanic activity on Venus by analyzing radar data collected by the Magellan spacecraft between 1990 and 1992. Planetary ...