Ball Lightning Imagine seeing a glowing sphere floating through the sky during a thunderstorm. That's ball lightning, a ...

The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 feet above the seabed, 300 miles offshore. It last erupted in 2015 but has a history of more than 50 different ...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action.The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.The ...

"If you were on a boat above the volcano, you wouldn't know at all that it had erupted," Nooner said. During the June 2024 expedition to the Axial Seamount, the remote operated vehicle Jason is shown.

More than 50% of the world’s active volcanoes above sea level encircle the Pacific Ocean, forming the “Ring of Fire.” The ring stretches from New Zealand to the coast of South America.

The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and a mile underwater—is slowly showing signs of an impending eruption. Although less well-known that other volcanic giants of ...

Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large reservoirs of magma, new research finds. The findings have implications for monitoring volcanoes ...

While the heat and ash from the volcano was catastrophic for the town, it preserved the scrolls - though in an unreadable state. Image: An X-ray scan of part of one of the scrolls. Pic ...

Tremors as strong as magnitude five have raised concerns the volcano that forms ... the nearby islands with run-up heights up to 20-30 m above the shoreline and was also felt along the northern ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.