Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran rose 3.5 inches over 10 months, signaling that it is waking up after 700,000 years of dormancy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view of the Crater Lake Caldera in Oregon. Obviously, visible lava spewing from a volcano’s caldera, like Hawai’i’s ...

A study demonstrates that magmas from continental intraplate volcanoes contain concentrations of dissolved carbon dioxide ...

Scientists in Iceland have come up with an ambitious plan to drill into a volcano's magma chamber to source an abundant amount of clean, super-hot geothermal energy. The project, which would be a ...

Scientists compare volcanic cones on Earth and Mars to explain how gas-rich magma forms scoria cones. Spacecraft observations and Earth analog sites provide evidence of similar eruptive processes.

A mysterious type of magma found within extinct volcanoes scattered around the world could contain an abundant supply of rare earth elements, crucial ingredients for electric vehicles, wind turbines ...

And although those volcano eruptions are not part of a trend, experts have said, the volcanoes in question are far from the ...

A Martian volcano once thought to be the result of a single eruption turns out to have a much more complex past. Orbital imaging and mineral data show it developed through multiple eruptive phases, ...

Iceland is facing "an increased risk of an eruption" in the coming days, as magma accumulating in the Earth's crust under the Reykjanes Peninsula reaches a comparable volume to when the last eruption ...

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