Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

While Florida is no stranger to summer swelter, 2025 has been pretty quiet in one key way: the National Weather Service (NWS) ...

To learn more about what kind of waves emanated from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai volcano and why they spread so far, a team of scientists tapped into satellite data and computer models. They ...

A volcanic eruption in the South Pacific was so powerful that its shockwaves left the planet and reached space, new research shows. The 2022 underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, one of ...

In December 2021, the volcano—called Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai after the two islands that sit on its rim—awoke in a series of tantrums that turned into outright turmoil on January 15, 2022.

For two years, scientists were perplexed by what could have triggered the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption, which came to be considered one of the largest volcanic events in ...

A Dec. 23, 2023, Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a compilation of clips including satellite images of the 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, a submerged volcano in the ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in January 2022, it sent a giant plume of ash and gases about 56 kilometers into the sky—the highest eruption ever recorded.

In January 2022, a mega explosion from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano generated a coast-battering tsunami and vivid sunsets. Now we know the extent of the eruption's devastation below the ...

The 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption may have contributed to this year's heat, but it's not causing climate change.