The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spearheads Volcano Awareness Month each January on the Island of Hawaii. This year, in ...

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to people.

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

A new study reveals that Hawai‘i’s two most active volcanoes, Kīlauea and Maunaloa, share the same source of magma deep within the Earth. For years, scientists believed these volcanoes had completely ...

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, Earth scientists from the University of Hawai'i ...

Previously, researchers believed that the split would take tens of millions of years, but now scientists say it could happen ...