A new “baby” island has been spotted in the middle of the ocean hours after an underwater volcano erupted not far from Australia. Earlier this month, the underwater Home Reef volcano – found in the ...

Scientists on the AKMA3 ocean expedition discovered an exceptional underwater feature consisting of a mud volcano in the ...

Saddle Mountain is a hike that showcases Western Oregon on a grand scale. The tallest peak in the northern Coast Range surveys the Pacific Ocean, Cascade volcanoes and Columbia River — three of the ...

People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet. Scientists have reason to believe that some of the moons in our solar system – ...

For three days, a remote volcano off the Pacific Northwest coast has been shaking almost nonstop, a deep rumble beneath the ...

The Central Tonga Islands welcomed the birth of a new baby -- a baby island, that is.The new baby island emerged in the southwest Pacific Ocean, where underwater volcanoes are plentiful. One of these ...

Ocean swells are constantly occurring across the Earth’s oceans. These swells interact with the ocean crust below, creating continuous ocean noise that travels all over the Earth, including through ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago, but ...

Tides flowing in a subsurface ocean of molten rock, or magma, could explain why Jupiter’s moon Io appears to have its volcanoes in the “wrong” place. New NASA research implies that oceans beneath the ...