So. It’s December 31, and that means one thing: that the world – and specifically, Axial Seamount, the volcano lying on the ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

Experiments show that lightning strikes can trigger the synthesis of basic organic molecules needed by living organisms.

Far below the postcard beaches and turquoise shallows of Bermuda, scientists have mapped a colossal slab of rock that should ...

Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active ...

A massive volcano hidden beneath the Pacific is swelling again, but its predicted eruption never came. Scientists are now ...