Launched in 1989, the Magellan spacecraft mapped most of the surface of Venus over six cycles. The spacecraft studied Venus ...

“Ashfall is going to be a big hazard,” says Matt Haney, the scientist-in-charge at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Alaska Volcano Observatory. Though volcanic ash might sound exceptionally peri ...

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Continuous infrasound (low-frequency acoustic energy) monitoring is now established in Yellowstone. And the method is ...

There are currently no active volcanoes in New England, but they did once exist in the region and they created some of the landforms you can see today. The Ossipee Mountains are an example of a “ring ...

A lot of people visit Adak to see the crumbling military base, but it's the wildlife, land, and sea that are the real treat.

An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound (318-kilogram) boulder for three hours survived the ...

And while the advisory assured that the “likelihood of an eruption continues to gradually decline,” the 11,000-foot-tall volcano remains at an “elevated state of unrest,” meaning that an “explosive ...

Despite a decline in volcanic activity over the past two months, Spurr is at a yellow alert level, indicating that activity ...

Despite a recent decrease in activity, there’s still a chance Mount Spurr will blow. And if that happens, there are a few ...

In March, the observatory said Spurr’s eruption was “likely, but not certain, to occur within the next few weeks or months.” Since that report, activity at the volcano has declined slightly, though ...

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...