Rescuers on Saturday recovered the body of an Indonesian woman caught in a volcanic eruption at Mt. Dukono on the island of Halmahera a day earlier, as search operations continued for other victims.

This past March, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists — two of whom travelled from Hawaii — visited El Salvador in ...

Those scientists saved countless lives, but their forecast was more of an educated guess than it might have appeared. It was ...

A good cup of espresso is harder to craft than you think. A small change in grind size can turn the same beans into a ...

Raphael Gomes experiments with a Mentos and Sprite Hwachae volcano in a fizzy science test.

The University of Texas at San Antonio transformed its campus into a hands-on science playground Saturday as Viva Science SA ...

A centuries-old vision of a mechanical volcano has finally erupted into reality, as two University of Melbourne engineering students recreated a design first imagined in 1775 by volcanology enthusiast ...

Archaeologists have used AI for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of ...

Hawaii’s most active and popular volcano, Kilauea, is preparing to put on a show as geologists forecast the volcano’s 44th eruption in the coming days. The United States Geological Survey said that ...

Most people associate ash and churning lava with volcanic activity, but volcanoes also produce formations that look unnervingly like human ponytails. Known as Pele's hair, these extremely thin strands ...

Hawaii Island’s Kilauea volcano began erupting on March 10, spewing rock fragments as large as footballs, threatening nearby communities and closing nearby highways. "Vigorous fountaining has started, ...

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest 1. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...