In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Thrusting the iron claws of their hammers into a river of red-hot lava, Brigham Young University students pull back ropy samples of molten rock that stretch through the air like soft taffy. In the ...

Young lava flows. An instrument aboard Venus Express, ESA's first probe toVenus, mapped thermal emission from the southern hemisphere of Venus, ...

These volcanoes are located below the Pacific Ocean, about 2,900 miles south of Hawaii. A research team charted the ocean floor and detected the volcanoes, which are seemingly young and possibly ...

Young volcanic rocks in Wyoming are not limited to the area in and immediately surrounding Yellowstone Caldera.

One of California’s riskiest volcanoes has for decades been undergoing geological changes and seismic activity, which are sometimes a precursor to an eruption, but — thankfully — no ...

At the same time, however, these volcanoes could not have been active for 165 million years—not even the ocean plate they burst from is that old. A cutaway section shows the Earth's interior.

Young volcanic rocks in Wyoming are not limited to the area in and immediately surrounding Yellowstone Caldera. Eruptions have also occurred in the past few million years along the leading ...

Craters of the Moon Monument & Preserve encompasses a huge region of about 1,200 square miles and includes two separate geologically young lava fields: the main Craters of the Moon lava field in ...

One of California's riskiest volcanoes has for decades been undergoing geological changes and seismic activity, which are sometimes a precursor to an eruption, but—thankfully—no supervolcanic ...