A new video from Japan’s maritime authorities captures an underwater volcano bursting through the sea surface in a violent plume of ash, steam and rock, turning a patch of open ocean into a churning ...

Scientists are predicting that a mile-long volcano off the U.S. West Coast will erupt this year. The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, is ...

Amazing footage taken by Japan's Coast Guard shows an eruption near Iwo Jima after an eruption just two months prior to when ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Though volcanoes dot the face of the planet and can be found on every continent, researchers say most of Earth's volcanic eruptions happen in a dark and faraway place: deep underwater.

An active underwater volcano off the Oregon Coast that was predicted to erupt in 2025 is now expected to erupt mid-to-late 2026. The Axial Seamount volcano is located nearly a mile beneath the sea, ...

A yellow, brick-like volcanic formation found nearly 10,000 feet deep reveals how underwater eruptions fracture rock.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand and Australia have sent military surveillance flights to assess the damage in Tonga caused by Saturday's huge undersea volcanic eruption. Communications with the ...

One year ago, scientists made a surprisingly concrete prediction: Before 2025 was out, they said, Axial volcano — a submerged seamount near Oregon in the Northern Pacific Ocean — would erupt. That ...

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

But some refused to evacuate during the hazardous lava fountaining episode.

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...