The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above ...

But if you start thinking about these plot holes too much, it's hard to focus on those themes -- or anything else, for that ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

The plight of a young Brazilian tourist who fell into an active volcano in Indonesia has raised questions about the dangers ...

This the heartbreaking moment the body of a Brazilian tourist was recovered from a volcano by Indonesian rescuers. Footage ...

This affordable walking route up an extinct volcano with 'beautiful views' has been named the best in Scotland.

NASA ’s longest-running Mars mission has sent back an unprecedented side view of a massive volcano rising above the Red Planet, just before dawn. On May 2, as sunlight crept over the Martian ...

In a way, these volcanoes exist in a liminal space between active and extinct. However, some volcanoes defy this easy categorization, and chief among them is the long-dormant Uturuncu volcano in ...

Though immensely powerful, volcanoes are not always spewing hot lava around. Many are considered dormant or even extinct and have not shown their strength for hundreds of thousands of years in ...

New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...

Some extinct volcanoes may be harboring a cache of "rare earth elements," new research has determined. These elements are important for running certain green technologies.