An underwater volcano in the Pacific, Axial Seamount, reveals a process that could challenge current theories about the Earth ...

It's a truism among oceanographers that there is more accurate mapping of the surface of the moon and Mars than of the ...

The eruptions of some mid-ocean volcanoes may be the echoes of supercontinent breakups that persisted for tens of millions of years after the rearrangement of Earth's surface, a new study suggests.

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There have been five major extinction events that have fundamentally changed how ...

This video shows a massive green volcanic mountain rising beside the Pacific Ocean on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, United States. Steep ridges covered in dense tropical vegetation stretch from the ...

A submarine volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon could erupt for the first time since 2015, spewing “very fluid lava” into the sea where scientists were recently recording more than 1,000 daily ...

A new study by an international team of researchers revealed that a rare and large summertime phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre in the summer of 2018 was prompted by ash from ...

A lava flow from Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island has reached the ocean for the first time since 2013. Lava began flowing on May 24, and traveled 6.5 miles over Pulama Pali to reach the ocean on ...