Helgi Hjorleifsson, a firefighter, is a leader in a national experiment to steer rivers of lava away from important sites.

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have ...

The structure seen here is Palanok Castle in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia, Ukraine. The fortress rises above the city from a steep ...

A new detection method called “Jerk” could dramatically improve how scientists forecast volcanic eruptions. By using a single broadband seismometer, the system can detect extremely subtle ground ...

A new study challenges a site that's crucial to our understanding of how people got to the Americas. Decades ago, a site in ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by Koji Kuramura and Gerald Eichstädt. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals active volcanoes on Io in unprecedented detail thanks to an innovative technique.

More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first ...

Data suggest people lived at Chile’s Monte Verde site thousands of years later than thought, challenging key “pre-Clovis” evidence. Not all agree.

Scientists have uncovered a 377-million-year-old tree fossil in southwest England that shows early trees once grew on ...

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.