American Samoa doesn’t make it onto many bucket lists, and that’s precisely what makes it extraordinary. Tucked into the ...

This eerie astronaut photo shows a ghostly structure with a skull-like appearance glowering up into space from the floor of a giant volcanic pit in the Sahara. The cranium lookalike is located on the ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world is gearing up for a spectacular eruption, according to the United States ...

Explosive volcanic eruptions on early Mars may have transported water ice to equatorial regions, according to a modeling study published in Nature Communications. The authors suggest that these ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Taftan, a 13,000-foot-tall stratovolcano in southeastern Iran, is showing signs of life with a rapid uplifting of ground near the summit over the ...

The Taftan volcano in Iran frequently expels gas, but has not erupted. A volcano that has been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years could be gearing up for a massive explosion, according to new ...

How do volcanoes work? What happens beneath their surface? What causes the vibrations—known as tremor—that occur when magma or gases move upward through a volcano's conduits? Professor Dr. Miriam ...

A volcano near the Iran-Pakistan border rose multiple inches between 2023 and 2024 — raising alarm that it may be nearing an eruption for the first time in more than 700,000 years. The Taftan volcano ...

A long-quiet stratovolcano has swelled 3.5 inches in 10 months. Lead Global Correspondent A long-dormant volcano has swollen 3.5 inches in 10 months, scientists say—amid concern that it could erupt ...

The warmest parts of Mars host a strange, thick layer of ice beneath the surface, and we may have finally figured out how it got there. It might have been shifted from the inside of the planet by ...