EVEN more flights have been cancelled to and from a popular European holiday destination – which has seen hundreds of people ...

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A strange "chirping" signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe's brightest stellar explosions ...

Satellites have detected an underwater eruption in the Bismarck Sea, potentially forming a new island. The event offers a ...

An underwater volcano erupting quietly beneath the Bismarck Sea, just north of Papua New Guinea, could soon push a brand new ...

Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...

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Europe’s largest active volcano Mount Etna has erupted once more with fresh drone footage showing bright orange lava pouring from its fissure. Mount Etna’s latest eruption began on Friday from a ...

Mount Etna in Italy is one of the most well-studied volcanoes in the world. It has been erupting for thousands of years, and ...

Taal Volcano in the Philippines recorded its fourth phreatomagmatic eruption this month, sending a 450‑metre plume into the ...

Mount Etna’s past eruptions reveal that a single volcano can erupt through very different underground pathways.