volcano

A video shared on Facebook allegedly shows footage of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland erupting in November 2023.  Verdict: False The video is miscaptioned. A spokesperson for The Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program told…

Scientists using NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and Spitzer Space Telescope have made a remarkable discovery —an Earth sized exoplanet orbiting a star in a neighbouring galaxy. This finding provides the strongest…

A video shared on Facebook purports NASA announced a 100-foot fissure crack just opened up at a volcano located in Yellowstone National Park.  Verdict: False There is no evidence for this claim. Check Your Fact found no statements about…

The eruption of a volcano in Russia this week has impacted flights in Alaska, Alaska Airlines said Thursday. A giant ash cloud from the Shiveluch volcano prompted some flights to be canceled as a safety precaution.As of 7 a.m. in…

The Earth is filled with bewildering places and structures and in most cases they are either built naturally by forces within the Earth or by humans. However, there is one place on Earth that ranks among the most unique places on the…

ByZarafshan Shiraz, Delhi The rumours of him going on a trip to Jeju Island with his girlfriend earlier this year had not even died down when K-pop sensation and Korean boyband BTS' golden maknae Jeon Jungkook revealed that South…

A volcano is an opening on the surface of a planet or moon that allows material hotter than its surroundings to escape from its interior. Although numerous volcanoes exist on Earth, the biggest volcano in our solar system does not exist on…

Months before the Geldingadalir volcano erupted in 2021, Iceland's volcanologists knew it was coming. A subterranean serpent of magma was coiling through the depths looking for a way out. As the magma stirred, it triggered tens of…

Warmer temperatures are melting the glaciers that sit like pressurized lids on many of the world's most volatile volcanoes.In Iceland, one of the few countries that actively monitors its volcanoes, glaciers push down on the earth,…

Volcanic eruption is a natural phenomenon which is known to occur on planet Earth. And now, in a first, scientists have seen direct evidence of active volcanism on Venus. Informing about the same NASA said, "direct geological evidence of…