Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

It should come as no surprise that when I head to a tropical island, I am more interested in the mountains than the beach.

Thrill-seekers are flocking to volcano boarding, a sport that involves sliding down active volcanoes on specially designed ...

Patricia] Kīlauea is a little bit different from sort of the stereotypical pointy cone volcano because it's called a shield volcano. Shield volcanoes form when lava is extra runny and can go ...

They're also called composite volcanoes. Mount Rainier in Washington is a famous stratovolcano. Shield volcanoes are big, broad volcanoes made up of oozy lava flows that erupt from multiple vents.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Using volcanic ash for protection against radiation exposure lessens disposal issues after eruptions and turns the waste material into something useful.

Yellowstone and Hawaiʻi. These systems a well known for producing large volumes of magma through time and leaving chains of volcanic features in their wake, although they do so in very different ways.

South Korea's military on Thursday charged two air force pilots with criminal negligence over an accidental bombing of a village near the DMZ last week that injured 43 and damaged dozens of buildings, ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean and U.S. troops will begin their large annual joint military drills next week to ...