They want to drill into a magma chamber and put some monitoring equipment in the hole. … That would give us some idea of what’s going on in there.” The project is called the Krafla Magma Testbed, or ...

One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its eruption with a trickle, not a blast. Mount St. Helens' gas-laden magma oozed into the cone before the mountain finally erupted in 1980.

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...