"Volcano: Birth of a Mountain" chronicles the eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, beginning on May 24, 1969. The film details the scientific observations made during the eruption ...

Volcanoes can look like small mountains or hills. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Magma is molten rock - rock that is so hot it has ...

According to data gathered from the New Horizons spacecraft, scientists say that Pluto is likely to have water ice, geysers, and volcanoes. The ice mountains are 11,000 feet high, and the planet's ...

But few places are as intriguing as the world’s second largest continent’s highest mountain, which is a snow-capped volcano that rises 5,895 metres (19,341 feet) above sea level and has five ...

Evidence of elevated volcanic activity indicate eruption of Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano could happen within weeks or months, federal officials say.

The mountain I found myself on this particular day was Haleakalā, a volcano the scientists say ... By then, my sunburnt kneecaps and dusty ankles blended in as well. Twenty miles into my day ...