This spectrogram shows four hours of USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory data streams across six seismic stations at Kilauea’s ...

Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe ...

A lava flow smolders, glowing red through black volcanic rock. While the Icelandic government ... into loud seismic and eruptive awakenings in a cycle that’s transpired several times in the ...

and igneous rocks are volcanic rocks that came to the surface in the form of lava or magma. But why is the rock cycle important? As stated, rocks play an important role in our everyday lives, and ...

The composition of this mush partly determines the volcano’s likelihood of erupting: a higher proportion of melted rock to solid crystals ... amounts of its life cycle with some melt without ...

New research into fossilized rock formations in Zimbabwe is shedding light on Earth's nitrogen cycle before the rise ... nitrogen cycling was shaped by volcanic activity and hydrothermal processes ...

Finally, we arrived to find a vast sea of volcanic rock just six months old. Geophysicist Freysteinn Sigmundsson from the University of Iceland gave us a tour. Freysteinn Sigmundsson: Yeah ...

This process is part of a larger geological cycle ... on the rock above it. Scientists also recently discovered multiple magma reservoirs connected to the massive underwater volcano.

The topography of the area suggests the volcano last erupted about 3.5 billion years ago, so all that molten rock will have cooled ... cooling – each melting cycle concentrates the radioactive ...

A nearly four-minute eruption Monday afternoon sending a 2.5-mile ash column above the crater and a deadly spurt of hot ash, gases and fragmented volcanic rock about 2 miles down the mountain's ...

“That is pretty much just part of being an active volcano,” she said. “There’s really no cycle on a human time scale that governs which volcanoes erupt at which time.” A time-lapse video ...