Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study published by the Geophysical Research Letters journal has found that the volcano’s summit has risen by 3.5in between ...

'Extinct' volcanoes that haven't erupted for tens of thousands of years may not actually be inactive, but silently accumulating huge reservoirs of magma to fuel future outbursts. This worrying ...

For more than 100,000 years, a Greek volcano lay silent. But deep underground, it was still growing. Tiny zircon crystals show magma was quietly brewing between eruptions, researchers report April 22 ...

New research on Greece’s Methana volcano shows it erupted after a 100,000-year pause, challenging the criteria for declaring volcanoes extinct. Scientists found magma was accumulating during its quiet ...

For more than 100,000 years, the Methana volcano in Greece appeared dormant. No lava, no explosions, no ash clouds. It appeared extinct, like many other volcanoes today. An international research team ...

Romania’s Ciomadul volcano last erupted some 30,000 years ago, but as a new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reports, between 5 to 14 cubic miles of magma still simmer below the ...

A person standing on the largest volcano in the solar system would never know it. Olympus Mons rises 70,000 feet over Mars on slopes too gentle to notice, and its summit pokes above most of the planet ...

Last volcanic eruption on the Red Planet ceased about 50 million years ago – around the time when our planet’s plant and animal species, including dinosaurs, went extinct Washington: The last volcanic ...

A volcano that lies close to the border between Iran and Pakistan may be nearing an eruption again for the first time in more than 700,000 years, a study has suggested. Scientists say that the Taftan ...