Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.

Most travelers picture Yellowstone when Wyoming comes up, but Grand Teton sits just to the south and rarely gets its due. The ...

Earth has some massive volcanoes called "supervolcanoes" that can cause huge eruptions, way bigger than anything we’ve ever ...

With the world feeling more volatile than ever, especially after the most recent turmoil in the Middle East, itchy-footed ...

In six U.S. states, dormant volcanoes are now showing signs of life, indicating that the era of quiet may be over as seismic ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...

Texas’ strongest earthquake in history struck around 5:40 a.m. on Aug. 16, 1931. The magnitude 5.8 earthquake was centered about 7.5 miles southwest of Valentine, a small community in Presidio ...

On the morning of June 21, visitors at Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park observed a bison slip into a ...