Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

Mount Edgecumbe, a towering volcano located near Sitka, Alaska, has slept peacefully, offering no signs of the fiery turmoil ...

The Canary Islands has been rattled by a staggering 30 earthquakes in 48 hours, according to the National Geographic ...

An ancient Florida mystery nicknamed the 'Wakulla Swamp Volcano' continues to baffle scientists, though today's modern ...

In the 19th century, rumors abounded of a volcano that reportedly existed in northwest Florida. According to the Florida ...

The Yellowstone volcano is a hotspot, which means the volcano formed when the North American tectonic plate moved over a particularly hot region in Earth's mantle. "While the hotspot has sat ...

“Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation,” astronaut Buzz Aldrin famously said when he first stepped onto the Moon’s ...

June 13, 2024 — Video footage of Iceland's 2010 Eyjafjallaj kull eruption is providing researchers with rare, up-close observations of volcanic ash clouds -- ... Earth Scientists Describe a New ...

Iceland, which sits above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic, averages one eruption every four to five years. The most disruptive in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the ...

GRINDAVIK, Iceland — Lava continued to spew from a volcano in southwestern Iceland on Friday — the sixth time since December the volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes Peninsula. The eruption ...

Many of Australia's volcanoes exist in a band that begins in Queensland and extends down along the eastern seaboard. They can be explained by a hotspot deep beneath the Earth's surface.