Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

Volcanoes are grouped into four types: cinder cones, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes and lava volcanoes. Cinder cones are circular or oval cones made up of small fragments of lava from a single ...

Editor’s note: The KOIN 6 Weather team is presenting weather and science lessons to help serve our teachers and students. Click here for more lessons. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The mighty mountains of ...

A new submarine volcano was formed off the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean in 2018. This was shown by an oceanographic campaign in May 2019. Now an international team has illuminated the ...

May 16 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a new type of volcano formation. While studying the planet's layers deep beneath Bermuda, scientists found evidence of volcanic material rising from the ...

Students use volcanic ash data to determine the source of a possible supervolcanic eruption that occurred in the western United States. Supervolcanic eruptions are extremely large eruptions that ...

The recent earthquake swarm near Santorini has brought the topic of volcanoes in Greece back into the spotlight.