The year without a summer In the spring of 1815, things were looking up for Canada. Local Canadian militia, along with British forces and their Indigenous allies, had just thwarted an American ...

Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not ...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin acted this week to stop a dubious, if not dangerous, idea: blocking ...

This false-color satellite photo from 2014 shows the immense heat emanating from lava lakes at the summits of a pair of ...

Volcanoes inspire awe with spectacular eruptions and incandescent rivers of lava, but often their deadliest hazard is what quietly falls from the sky. When a large volcano erupts, as Mount Spurr ...

The European Space Agency’s astronaut cohort includes a parastronaut, as part of a feasibility project. AP Photo/Francois Mori Jesse Rhoades, University of North Dakota and Rebecca Rhoades, University ...

Mount Lewotobi, located in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, erupted on Wednesday, triggering a flight warning and ...

Jakarta: Mount Lewotobi, situated in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province, erupted on Wednesday, prompting an aviation ...

The 210th anniversary of the Tambora eruption is a moment to contemplate, and to educate the public about volcanoes’ threats ...

When a large volcano erupts, as Mount Spurr appears close to doing about 80 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, it can release ...

After the eruption, the global temperature dropped by up to 3°C, and a 'volcanic winter' was witnessed in many places.