People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...

The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent ...

The event, which took place in 1831, was one of the largest eruptions of ... poor understanding of their eruptive history—i.e. the size and date of past eruptions," study lead author William ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Zavaritskii’s last known eruption was in 800 BC. “For many of Earth’s volcanoes, particularly those in remote areas, we have a very poor understanding of their eruptive history,” said lead ...

In 1815, Mount Tambora experienced the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption's effects altered Earth’s climate for years and even led to the “year without summer” in 1816.

The aviation color code over the area has been changed from green to yellow as a precaution, the Icelandic meteorological ...

Violent eruptions continue in Hawaii, sending lava hundreds of feet into the air and spreading glass threads over nearby areas.

Further, the eruption was believed to be so major that it is the second-largest eruption seen from 29P in the past 12 years. An image of comet 29P captured by Spitzer in 2003. Image source ...

Investigators are considering an array of possible ignition sources for the fires that have killed at least 10 people and destroyed thousands of structures in California.