Note: This is the fourth in a series of six Guest Opinions commemorating the Craters of the Moon National Monument Centennial. While southern Idaho’s vast Snake River Plain is lauded and renowned ...

MOSCOW, Idaho -- The University of Idaho announced Thursday that postdoctoral researcher, Ian T.W. Flynn found what looks to be a spatter cone of volcanic matter on Mars. Flynn compared the volcanic ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Zach Lifton, geologist with the Idaho ...

Lava channels that crusted over became lava tubes, effectively transporting lava significant distances downhill until the lava supply waned, whereupon the tubes were mostly emptied, forming enticing ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Mt. Shiveluch in Russia began erupting again Tuesday, and an ash cloud has entered the jet stream and traveled above Washington and Idaho. The National Weather Service Aviation ...

Finn said the paper on Idaho’s Cassia Hills is the first in a series examining the region in greater geological detail. He’s been working with other scientists for six years as he completes his ...

Geologists set the record straight on a hoax over the Christmas holiday when someone who claimed to be from Wyoming shared a series of social media posts that claimed the area was being evacuated ...

MOSCOW, Idaho - A study led by the University of Idaho has uncovered the first evidence of a volcanic spatter cone on Mars. According to a press release from the University of Idaho, Ian Flynn, a ...