Interior of the reconstructed Viking Age chieftain's hall (longhouse) at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Borg, Norway. This reconstruction represents the massive high-status farmsteads that defined the ...

Artemis II, NASA's first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years, launched Wednesday, April 1. It represents a shift ...

Lava is molten rock from a volcano that reaches the Earth’s surface. Liquid rock below the Earth’s surface is referred to as magma. More than 50% of the world’s active volcanoes above sea level ...

Volcanoes are often blamed as Earth’s main natural source of carbon dioxide. But a new reconstruction of the past 540 million years suggests that for most of deep time, they weren’t. Instead, ...

This year, the Earth’s core put on a show unlike any other, with volcanic eruptions that dazzled observers from every continent. Located in Hawaii, this volcano produced some of the year's most ...

Mount Etna has been gearing up for 2026 with a bang — or, actually, several of them — with days of explosive activity, bringing lava fountains, loud booms and eruption columns that launched dark ...