When the underwater Hunga Tonga volcano erupted in the South Pacific, it blasted an "unprecedented" amount of aerosols and water vapor into Earth's atmosphere. Now, scientists are saying the plume was ...

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption, which produced the most powerful atmospheric explosion ever recorded, also generated a record number of lightning strikes in a supercharged ...

Aerial images show the devastation in Tonga left behind after a violent offshore volcanic eruption sparked a tsunami and clouded the sky with ash. Communications with the island nation have largely ...

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai submarine volcano in January 2022 was one of the most explosive volcanic events of the modern era, a new study has confirmed. Led by researchers from the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On January 15, 2022, the drowned caldera under the South Pacific ...

Early last year, a massive underwater volcano erupted, creating a powerful shockwave of plasma bubbles that were strong enough to disrupt radio communications in space, a new study has revealed. The ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano in Tonga exploded on ...

In Roland Emmerich’s 2012 (streaming now on Peacock!) the world runs head on into a catastrophic apocalypse, complete with earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. In the real world, we survived the ...

On January 13, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of the start of something big–a massive volcanic eruption on ...

A photo of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption taken on December 24, 2021, before the biggest eruption on January 15, 2022. Tsunamis caused by the eruption killed at six people in Tonga ...