The UNESCO World Heritage Site, which features 40,000 near-perfect hexagonal columns, formed roughly 60 million years ago ...

Have you ever been to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland? It's one of the UK's most instantly recognisable natural ...

This, as legend has it, is how the Giant’s Causeway was created. It’s a fantastic story, but science offers a different ...

A powerful and dramatic scene of an active volcano erupting, with bright molten lava flowing down from the crater while thick clouds of smoke and ash rise into the sky. The glowing red lava contrasts ...

Volcanologists discovered that really hot magma, oddly, won’t start cooling into rock until it reaches lower-than-normal ...

Geochronologists say basalt columns in Antrim sprang up during volcanic activity over 5.5m years – 8m less than thought ...

NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, Juno, NASA’s spacecraft, witnessed numerous active volcanoes erupting ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home to more than 100 massive volcanic mountains, some of which are taller than ...

Yesterday (Wednesday), the Indonesian authorities raised the warning level of Mount Bur Ni Telong, in the province of Aceh in ...

Explosive volcanic eruptions can influence the climate for years – for example, through ash and sulphur particles injected into the atmosphere that reduce solar radiation. Conversely, geological ...