At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

Lanzarote’s volcanoes have inspired locals to make everything from art to wine. A tour of the island reveals the landscape’s ...

In 2018, the Anak Krakatau volcano in Indonesia erupted violently, triggering a devastating tsunami that killed over 400 ...

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, ...

Naples is a city that stirs the senses. From the moment you arrive, the streets hum with life — Vespas darting through ...

Uturuncu, a Bolivian ‘zombie volcano’ that hasn’t erupted in more than 250,000 years, has shown signs of life. But scientists ...

Roman Signer takes his furniture on wild journeys. He plays with fire, simulates landslides and sends tables soaring into the ...

New research shows that elevation changes and earthquakes in Italy's Campi Flegrei volcanic area are caused by rising pressure in a geothermal reservoir -- not magma or its gases, as commonly thought.

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

Marine salvage experts on Sunday have began operations to recover from the seabed off Italy’s Sicilian coasts the ...

IT was an ordinary day when Mount Vesuvius plastered nearby towns in thick volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. A treasure trove of objects was buried, each giving an insight into the lives people led.