A major discovery beneath Yellowstone National Park has revealed a magma cap located nearly 2.4 miles below the surface, which could help prevent a massive volcanic eruption. Using advanced seismic ...

Scientists have shed light on a thermal process in magma that may help explain why similar volcanic systems can produce very ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

Volcanologists discovered that really hot magma, oddly, won’t start cooling into rock until it reaches lower-than-normal ...

During lava fountaining episodes, strong volcanic tremor — a signal associated with fluid movement — is recorded on seismic ...

Although volcanic eruptions are spectacular natural events that occur around the world every day, most volcanoes spend the majority of their time not erupting. To accurately forecast volcanic activity ...

A volcano that erupted after being asleep for more than 100,000 years is leading more volcanologists to say we must redefine ...