Visitors were spellbound as lava continued to spew from a volcano in southwestern Iceland, lighting up the night sky with an orange glow.

The picturesque Eldhraun Lava Field in Iceland is home to one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions and biggest lava flow in the world. From the U.S. to India, the destruction affected climates ...

Mars may be tens of millions of kilometers away, but for planetary scientists, the most revealing rehearsal space sits in the ...

My studying three eruptions at the Fagradalsfjall Volcano in Iceland, the team was able to show predictable and rapid microbe ...

Known as Le Grand Hiver (the Great Winter) in France, the Great Frost was a winter of unprecedented bitter cold across the European continent between 1708 and 1709. Lasting about three months, the ...

On the roads, motor-vehicle deaths — which spiked during the pandemic — have now fallen for several years in a row: the ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms.

Long associated with imagery of the Three Wise Men, the depiction of Christmas took on a wintry turn in the 16th century. Yet ...

Nature likes to show off, and it has a way of sculpting ice into jaw-dropping masterpieces. These glaciers look like ...

One of the most important discoveries involved rain. Early on, most microbes on the lava came from dust, soil blown in by the ...

Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 ...

The Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island shot lava fountains as high as 1,400 feet into the air, the USGS reported.