Mount Etna in Italy is one of the most well-studied volcanoes in the world. It has been erupting for thousands of years, and ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole at its center. The jets stretch farther than the galaxy itself and spiral ...

The Pakistan-Afghanistan Border is Once Again on the Edge. A Fragile Ceasefire Has Collapsed; Fresh Military Action Has ...

Ever wondered what would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted? In this article, BBC science and weather presenter, Sophia Herod brings you everything you need to know about one of the ...

The World Cup 2026 opened on Thursday, June 11, with Mexico playing South Africa. It appeared the entire Africa turned out against our sister African country. In the 1990s, this would have been the ...

A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often ...

On Jan. 26, 2026, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea crossed an important threshold for time-domain astronomy. For the ...

A submarine eruption north of Papua New Guinea may be building new land while satellites track its evolution from above.

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

Effusive volcanoes take a very different approach. Their main act is the outpouring of lava flows. While these can absolutely be destructive, their progress is usually slow enough to allow for ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava ...