Scientists have been studying the Axial Seamount for three decades. Scientists are predicting that a mile-deep volcano off the U.S. West Coast will erupt this year. The Axial Seamount, an ...

Is it possible that a volcano can erupt with no previous signs? Fiske: If a volcano is monitored instrumentally, it is very unlikely that any major eruption could occur without any previous ...

That these soggy bombs rarely explode has long proved baffling. But scientists can’t really study these speedy projectiles in detail as they are launched out of a volcano. “You don’t want to ...

Volcanoes don't all erupt explosively, and while scientists have long realized that the type of magma affects the eruption, new research is showing heat is also driving the kaboom.

Mount Merapi in Indonesia is expected to erupt at any moment, and Indonesian government officials have begun to evacuate the people living in villages near the volcano. The volatile mountain's ...