WASHINGTON — A vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could supply magma to three active volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains — Mount St. Helens, ...

Every day, the supervolcano lurking under Yellowstone National Park belches up 45,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide - much more than could be produced by the known magma chamber that lies just below ...

WASHINGTON -- A vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could supply magma to three active volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains -- Mount St. Helens ...

When the dinosaur-snuffing asteroid hit Earth some 66 million years ago, it produced a subterranean pool of magma roughly nine times larger than the current caldera at Yellowstone National Park, ...

Lava erupts from the Sundhnúkur volcano on June 3, 2024, on the Reykjanes Peninsula near Grindavik, Iceland. The volcano has erupted five times since December 2023, forcing evacuations of Grindavik ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Fast-flowing lava raced towards a town in Iceland today after a volcano erupted for the third time in just three months. The eruption began at Sundhnúk shortly before 6am on Thursday morning, and ...

When red-hot magma spews from a volcano, it is clearly flowing like a liquid. But before erupting, that same magma may have spent hundreds of thousands of years in a chunky state resembling cold ...

The supervolcano below Long Valley, California, near Yosemite National Park hasn't erupted in 765,000 years—but when it did, if geologists had been around to watch it, they may have been surprised by ...

Scientists have detected a gigantic reservoir of hot, partly molten rock deep beneath Yellowstone National Park. The newly discovered magma reservoir is big enough to fill up the Grand Canyon 11 times ...