From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

The Axial Seamount, located 300 miles off Oregon's coast, shows signs of eruption. Experts assure it won't affect land or ...

A recent groundbreaking scientific expedition has pierced deeper into the Earth’s mantle than ever before, offering ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

Axial Seamount, a mile-wide underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon, is showing signs of an imminent eruption. The volcano ...

An underwater volcano off the Pacific Coast could erupt by the end of the year, according to scientists. The volcano, known ...

The underwater volcano, Axial Seamount, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is heading to eruption for the first time in a ...

Though perhaps not well known to the general public, Axial Seamount is considered a key window into Earth's geology. Axial is ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian plates, may have increased by as much as 40%. “As ice volume was greatly reduced, it ...