The recent eruption at Napau Crater was the first on Kilauea’s middle East Rift Zone (ERZ) in six years. We often remember ...

The eruption in and near Napau Crater on September 15–20 is an example of a brief eruption in this area. If a longer and larger eruption were to occur, such as at Maunaulu (1969-1974), most lava ...

Firefighting efforts continue. The 78-acre fire smoldering in the remote East Rift Zone of Kilauea volcano, south of Napau Crater, is 70% contained. A 78-acre wildfire continues to burn in a ...

A child’s swing hung from a branch. Between the houses, a vintage, yellow pickup truck sat at the bottom of the small crater, a wooden fence and a cluster of crape myrtles leaning across it.

Crater Lake's famously pure water and a newt that calls the lake home are under threat from the explosion of an invasive crayfish, leading to potential action under the Endangered Species Act, the ...

The federal government announced this week that it is considering listing an Oregon newt that lives only at Crater Lake National Park as threatened or endangered because an invasive predator has ...

NASA reports the team has spent the last several months coaxing Perseverance up the steep side of Jezero Crater, but they've found a technique that keeps the robot moving. As Perseverance ascended ...

This image of the Cornelia Crater on Vesta shows lobate deposits (right) and curvilinear gullies (highlighted by the short white arrows, left). According to a newly published paper in The ...

"Mars didn't want to make it easy for anyone to get to the top of this ridge." NASA's Perseverance rover took a break from its Mars mountaineering expedition recently to survey its old stomping ...

The possibility that Saudi Arabia will lift the “floodgates” on its oil production has climbed in recent weeks, fueled by “deteriorating cohesion” among the group of major oil producers ...

Flanking the eastern edge of the Serengeti, the site houses the Ngorongoro Crater – the world's sixth-largest intact volcanic caldera – and Olduvai Gorge. This UNESCO World Heritage site ...

The rover has so far spent about two months negotiating a steep route out of the Jezero Crater with the aim of cresting the rim in early December. At roughly the halfway point, the rover stopped Sept.