A merger of many ice volcanoes form Pluto's two mane mountains, a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications reveals -- and what they've found suggests the planet is an ocean world ...

More than half of the world’s critical mineral resources formed in ancient volcanic systems. When exploring for mineral ...

Super-volcanoes have probably caused more extinctions than asteroids. Vanderbilt University researchers say such volcanoes could form fairly quickly, in a few hundred years, and erupt without notice.

They form when a combination of mud, fluids and gases erupt at the Earth’s surface. The term “volcano” is borrowed from the much better known world of igneous volcanoes, where molten rock ...

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

Along 1,100 kilometers, from Mexico to Costa Rica, lies the Central American volcanic arc, where the variety of magma types make for a geological paradise. By Pablo Fonseca Q. / Knowable Magazine ...

Volcanoes with irregular or more elliptical openings didn’t typically form rings. When they did, these apertures warped the doughnut shape or caused the ring to wobble, the team reported.

An odd-looking cloud formation over Mount Rainier drew curious eyes from social media users Wednesday as the volcano looked as if it was giving a warning before some sort of event, but experts quic… ...