For centuries, Mount Taftan has been considered dormant volcano, a quiet sentinel in the Makran region of southeastern Iran.

When hundreds of volcanologists gathered in Geneva last July for the world’s largest volcanology conference, Italy’s Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) drew particular attention.

Sensors used to monitor extreme environments need to provide reliable measurements despite high temperatures and harsh conditions. Now, researchers have developed a piezoelectric sensor that works at ...

A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist led the development of a new technique to predict volcanic eruptions years in advance using satellite imagery to track small changes in temperature on lands ...

Developers of an advanced geothermal energy system on the flanks of Newberry Volcano east of La Pine reported a major ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Behnaz Hosseini, Ph.D. student, ...

The eruption of Mount Pinatubo volcano in June 1991 is the second largest volcanic eruption of the twentieth century. Understanding how volcano activity may change over time is particularly important ...

A unique underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean near the Solomon Islands has been termed a “sharkcano” because the sharks living there have withstood the extreme temperatures. Kavachi Volcano is one ...

Nighttime temperatures in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter’s moon Io, mapped here with data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, give hints about the textures of surface materials, as well as the ...