NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft discovered active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io. Before Voyager 1 flew by Io, scientists ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption ...

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Before then, the volcano's most recent major eruptions were in 2016, 2014, 2007 and 2003. In the past, researchers also sighted ephemeral islands up to half a mile (1 km) wide being birthed by the ...

According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, the likelihood of an eruption occurring in the next few weeks at Alaska's Mount Spurr has increased. The ...

From the ground, the erupting Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island looks like a hellish mouth opening up, revealing the Earth's depths. But from space, the volcano takes on a different look.

When Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in 2010 it left millions of travellers stranded and cost airlines an estimated €900 million. Now geophysicists are using satellites to provide advance ...

Volcanoes are formed when magma (liquid rock) trapped underneath the Earth’s crust rises to the surface and escapes through cracks. The space for the magma to leave is very small and ...