The horseshoe-shaped Midcontinent Rift is a 2,000-kilometer scar that is also called North America's 'broken heart' by ...

Is there anything more spectacular than a towering lava fountain? Think about what it is: glowing red molten rock being shot ...

From Etna to the Canary Islands, volcanic wines have garnered a lot of attention in recent years. But what distinguishes ...

that is believed to have been created by early volcanic eruptions and flooded with basaltic lava more than 3 billion years ago. Live coverage of the landing, jointly hosted by Firefly and NASA ...

The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North ...

The new eruption ages, coupled with field mapping efforts, revealed that Henrys Fork Caldera is home to multiple episodes of basaltic lava flow activity over the past 1.3 million years.

Long before the Great Lakes, a rift nearly tore North America in half—leaving behind Lake Superior’s depth, copper-rich ridges, and stories still told today.

“This explains why Yellowstone caldera is characterized by numerous episodes of rhyolite lava flow activity that correlate in time with basaltic activity outside of the caldera.” Another striking ...

Iceland's landscapes are defined by its unusual rock formations, carved by volcanic activity, glacial movements, and erosion ...