Mount Etna in Italy is one of the most well-studied volcanoes in the world. It has been erupting for thousands of years, and ...

A massive star in the Andromeda galaxy brightened in infrared light starting around 2014, then faded from optical view and ...

Discover the amazing science behind volcanic eruptions in this fun and easy-to-understand educational video for kids and ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often ...

A star could be about to become visible in the night sky in a once-every-80-years explosion. Here’s how to easily find T ...

The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava flows.

Mount Etna’s past eruptions reveal that a single volcano can erupt through very different underground pathways.

Officials reported a hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin, forming new vents and a boiling pool with no ...

Large fruits and seeds buried under volcanic ash nearly 75 million years ago upend the idea that flowering plants only came ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...