Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only discovered its existence in the 1980s.

They tend to inflate like a balloon in between eruptions. At Axial, the sea floor is actually rising, and that’s a big signal ...

An underwater volcano in Tonga dramatically changed the global climate by releasing massive steam, not just sulfur.

A massive underwater volcano, Axial Seamount, 300 miles off Oregon’s coast, may erupt soon after over 1,000 daily quakes and ...

The research showed the submarine eruption blasted up to 3 billion tons of water vapor into the atmosphere in just one hour, sending moisture more than 57 km into the stratosphere and mesosphere ...

A scientist has explained what happens during an underwater volcanic eruption looks like as Axial Seamount on the Pacific ...

Though perhaps not well known to the general public, Axial Seamount is considered a key window into Earth's geology. Axial is ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

Research on Tonga's devastating 2022 Hunga eruption has just been published in the journal Nature Geoscience. "Submarine volcanism has previously been overlooked in global climate studies, because ...

The Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located about 300 miles west of the Oregon coast and nearly a mile beneath ...