Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient underwater volcanoes may explain why marine life repeatedly collapsed during the Triassic, according to new geological ...

In Bolivia's remote Andes, an ancient volcano is stirring, and scientists are watching closely. Known as a Zombie Volcano, Uturuncu has remained dormant for 250,000 years. Yet now, it's showing ...

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

Researchers say that astronauts visiting the moon could drink water thanks to an unlikely source: Ancient volcanoes. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Meet Sint Eustatius, aka Statia, the small but gorgeous Caribbean island known as the "Pompeii of the New World." ...

An artistic rendering of the Odyssey spacecraft in orbit over Mars. NASA NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting the Red Planet for over two decades, has captured a spectacular ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There have been five major extinction events that have fundamentally changed how ...