This eye-catching satellite photo shows Simushir, a little-known Russian island and former Soviet naval base, featuring four ...

Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only ...

This Cold War outpost concealed more than submarines—it hosted a devastating eruption that cooled the planet nearly 200 years ...

A major geological discovery has just linked one of Earth's largest volcanic structures to a submarine hotspot in the Pacific Ocean. This revelation overturns our understanding of how submarine ...

Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located approximately 300 miles due west of Astoria, Oregon, is showing signs ...

A massive underwater volcano, Axial Seamount, 300 miles off Oregon’s coast, may erupt soon after over 1,000 daily quakes and seafloor uplift signal rising magma. Sitting 4,626 feet deep, it last ...

A submarine volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon could erupt for the first time since 2015, spewing “very fluid lava” into the sea where scientists were recently recording more than 1,000 ...

Gold is among those metals, as are ruthenium, platinum, and iridium.

About 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, an underwater volcano appears to be rumbling to life. Scientists who have been monitoring the vast submarine volcano for decades say a flurry of recent ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an undersea volcanic mountain chain.

There’s a lot that remains unknown about submarine volcanoes and how they erupt, however, largely because of where they occur: obscured from the view of scientists. So, how do we know an ...