Satellites captured footage of an underwater volcano eruption in a part of the sea that remains largely a mystery.

An underwater volcano violently erupted in the South Pacific in 2022. The chemical reaction that happened afterwards could ...

The South Pacific blast may have consumed its own methane — but using this idea against the greenhouse gas is controversial.

The discovery emerged from satellite observations of the eruption plume. Scientists detected an unusually large cloud of ...

Scientists can map the surface of Mars in sharper detail than stretches of Earth’s own ocean floor. Nowhere is that gap more glaring than the Bismarck Sea, a deep, geologically tangled basin north of ...

The volcano's activity has been described as rare and unusual, and coastal communities living around PNG's Bismarck Sea have been advised to be on heightened alert.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand and Australia have sent military surveillance flights to assess the damage in Tonga caused by Saturday's huge undersea volcanic eruption. Communications with the ...

Although researchers did predict the Axial Seamount would erupt in 2025, people on the Pacific coast shouldn't worry about its impact. Axial's eruptions are akin to the ones in Hawaii in which runny ...

New studies suggests that the ice ages influence underwater volcanic eruptions. Because volcanic chains spread across 37,000 miles (59,500 kilometers) on the ocean floor, the eruptions could pump out ...

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15 2022 in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga. It created a tsunami which triggered warnings across the entire Pacific basin, and sent ...