It's both educational and visually evocative, but the violence might be too much for your dinosaur loving little one.

The past and the present converge in this ravishingly beautiful Italian documentary set in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.

Elle Leontiev's image of Philip, a self-taught volcanologist who has lived on Mount Yasur his whole life, has won the ...

While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.

Cameras captured the intense lava flow and Strombolian activity in the volcano's crater. The event has been going on for 43 consecutive days under strict safety measures.

Volcanoes erupt because hot, melted rock from deep inside the Earth finds a way to reach the surface. This melted rock is called magma, and it forms when parts of the Earth’s mantle become so hot that ...

Surprise, surprise: all that climate stuff scientists have been warning us about is coming back to bite us. And by us, of course, we mean all of humanity. “Research shows that several Earth system ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

The oceans are the largest entity on Earth’s surface. All that blue, however, may be dwarfed by an immense reservoir of hydrogen concealed in the planet’s heart. Experiments indicate that enough ...