NASA’s Perseverance rover captures striking new details of the planet, including rock samples that could return to Earth in future missions.

Officials warned of large cinders falling across a near-2 mile radius from the volcano, which sits in the Kirishima mountain range on Kyushu, a large southern island of Japan. They urged people to be ...

Olympus Mons, a shield volcano on Mars, is the largest volcano in the solar system, measuring approximately 370 miles in diameter and 26 kilometers in height. The formation of Olympus Mons and ...

SIX volcanoes are now erupting in the wake of last week’s 8.8 megaquake. A chain of volcanoes has been set off – with the ...

According to the Alaska Earthquake Center, the Aleutian megathrust is the primary cause of the strongest earthquakes in the region. It's a major subduction zone fault, an area where two tectonic ...

The city of Naples in southern Italy is surrounded by three active volcanoes: Vesuvius, Ischia and Campi Flegrei. More than 3.5 million people in the area live within a 30 kilometre radius of one of ...

Among the active volcanic eruptions was the Krasheninnikov volcano, a previously at least 400-year-dormant volcano.

Over the past few months, signs of unrest at the 11,070-foot (3,374-meter) volcano near Anchorage have gradually decreased, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, which added that no ground ...

Olympus Mons is a shield volcano, which means it oozes huge amounts of lava, rather than simply blowing its top in a catastrophic eruption. Earth’s biggest volcanoes are also shield volcanoes.