The mountains on Jupiter's moon Io can reach more than 10 miles high. And scientists may finally be closer to understanding the dynamic processes behind their formation.

Something unusual was spotted swirling within the crater of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano during the most recent eruptive episode ...

Mount Apo had a spectacular hat-shaped cloud formation covering around its peak in the Philippines. Footage shows the volcano with lenticular clouds draped over its top portion in Davao del Sur ...

The United States, a volcanic hotspot, boasts 169 Holocene volcanoes, primarily in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Pacific Northwest.

Ever since we laid robotic eyes on the lone, giant mountain on Ceres, scientist have been obsessed with a single question: How did Ahuna Mons form? New models suggest the mountain is an icy ...

Venus is covered in mountains made of crystal, which scientists now think are formed by lava made of "crystal mush" that squeezes through the crust.

In the 1960s, an underwater volcano produced Surtsey Island off the coast of Iceland, and more recently Japan's Nishinoshima Island experienced a huge growth spurt from volcanic activity in 2013.

Bring your shovel and pail to hunt for million-year-old fossils while traversing a volcanic mountain range in California's sprawling Mojave Desert.

Criterion (viii): The nominated property is the most representative region in studying the uplift and formation evolution, mountain formation and volcanic mechanism of Changbai Mountains--the highest ...

On a clear day in the Central Valley you can see Mammoth Mountain. The peak on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains is part of a volcanic range that stretches into Madera County.

All aspects of this process common to terrestrial volcanoes with high-viscosity lava are also present on Ceres’ massive mountain, suggesting that that it formed the same way.