Must-see drone video shows bright red and orange lava hissing as it spills from a fissure on Mount Etna in Italy.

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Scientists have uncovered an extensive underwater vent system near Milos, Greece, hidden along active fault lines beneath the ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

Scientists have uncovered a vast hydrothermal vent system off Milos Island, Greece—one of the largest shallow-to-intermediate ...

A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...

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Geophysics is broadly the study of the physics of planetary bodies and atmospheres, including the flow of energy through these systems. The term may also be used more narrowly to describe the ...

The Japanese earthquake and tsunami remind us that we exist in geologic time and in a world where catastrophic events beyond our predicting may occur. These events — and the growing specter of climate ...

In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world’s most ...