Some scientists think we can better understand volcanoes by learning how the gaseous vortexes emerge. By Carolyn Wilke Some volcanoes perform a rather subtle trick: blowing rings of vapor that waft ...

It isn’t every day that we learn something that fundamentally changes how we understand our world. But for UC Santa Barbara Earth scientist Matthew Jackson and the thousands of volcanologists across ...

Some volcanoes, such as the Cascade volcanoes up in Washington and Oregon, are of the type called a stratovolcano. These steep volcanoes sometimes erupt explosively and other times have calmer lava ...

Venus is a strange, enchanting place. The rocky planet is often referred to as Earth's twin, because they're about the same size and have roughly the same mass. But there are some remarkable ...

Some volcanoes perform a rather subtle trick: blowing rings of vapor that waft near their craters. The short-lived rings have been observed occasionally at volcanoes such as Etna in Italy and ...

Q How do volcanoes form, and how did the volcano of Pompeii show up? Blue Sky Science is a collaboration of the Wisconsin State Journal and the Morgridge Institute for Research.