A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

New images reveal that stellar eruptions unfold in chaotic stages, with twisting outflows and late ejections that power ...

The Santorini Volcano Documentation and Information Center is entering its final phase, promising a unique earthquake ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...

The Black Death has long been framed as a purely biological catastrophe, a lethal bacterium riding into crowded ports and ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

The new station—with a continuous real-time data stream from a seismometer, GPS, cameras and infrasound sensors—will provide ...

The ancient Romans got the hang of how to use volcanic ash. They used it as an ingredient in their concrete, and the result ...

A North Allegheny graduate is participating in an effort at the University of Rhode Island aimed at predicting volcanic ...

A new study finds the Santorini volcano erupted decades before Pharaoh Ahmose, challenging its long-assumed link to early New ...