Eight miles east of the Puerto Rican mainland, the island of Vieques offers beaches, bioluminescence and decades of military ...

The sunspot region 4366 fired off dozens of powerful solar flares in 24 hours, including the single strongest flare since 2024. Auroras are possible later this week.

Shiveluch is the northernmost active volcano in Kamchatka and is located about 45 kilometers from the village of Klyuchi, ...

The moon is not a dead desert, as its surface and interior remain active, according to new research from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. Scientists at the university, through ...

A series of small earthquakes rattled the San Francisco Bay Area in an area that’s had a lot of seismic activity in recent ...

New seismic imaging shows magma lingering beneath quiet Cascade volcanoes, shaping how scientists monitor and plan for eruptions.

Beneath Venus’s scorched surface, scientists may have found something massive—and it could rewrite planetary history.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to forecast major eruptions? So far, the opportunity has been lacking. VEI-7 eruptions are rare: we have not seen one since Tambora in April 1815. To make a right ...

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

The deaths of two experienced climbers on Mount Rainier this month have once again drawn attention to a hard truth about ...