Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral ...

The Axial Seamount – located hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon and nearly 5,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s waves – erupted in April 2015, spewing a mile’s worth of lava onto the sea floor.

Glowing red lobsters, octopus gardens, towering tree-like corals and glass sponges that are thousands of years old make up just a few of the life forms at this new seamount. When scientists say that ...

Scientists with the Schmidt Ocean Institute have identified a massive undersea peak along the Salas y Gomez Ridge in the southeastern Pacific, a formation that rises higher from the ocean floor than ...

Deep below the Earth's surface, magma is churning and flowing into the Axial Seamount, an underwater shield volcano about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon. As the volcano grows and tremors increase, ...

Using an underwater robot launched from the research vessel Nautilus, an underwater volcano in American Samoa was explored. Ocean Exploration Trust Off the coast of American Samoa, an active ...