M ount Etna is Europe’s highest and most active volcano and has recently been up to its usual albeit impressive tricks of shooting volcanic ash and debris into the air. Mesmerizing new footage ...

An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...

Volcanoes can be morbidly fascinating for plenty of reasons, as can the lava they release. But what effect might all that ...

Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks ...

Traditionally considered to represent a shallow igneous sill, recent models suggest that the nakhlite meteorites sample several different lava flows, all from the Amazonian ... originated from the ...

Travel to a remote island near Brazil has been banned to all but scientists and the military because of the danger posed by its deadly snakes which can’t be found anywhere else in the world. The ...

I understand that reaching for one's valuables is human nature, and that people don't always behave rationally in a crisis, but lugging your carry-ons down the aisle in the middle of an emergency ...

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...

The Coldest Place on Earth Antarctica is the epitome of frigid climates, with temperatures that can make you shiver just thinking about them. 6°F) captured at Vostok Station in 1983. Imagine trying to ...

A massive volcano on Jupiter's moon, Io is more powerful than all of Earth's power stations combined - says American space agency, Nasa. The huge volcano was recently detected during flyby of the Juno ...

The result: immense energy from frictional heating that melts portions of Io's interior, resulting in a seemingly endless series of lava plumes and ash venting into its atmosphere from the estimated ...

Sustained lava fountains from the north vent have been observed, reaching heights of 100–120 feet, while lava flows have covered 15–20 percent of the crater floor. This new episode follows a ...