Scientists have witnessed the eruption of the deepest submarine volcano ever discovered, capturing for the first time video of fiery bubbles of molten lava as they exploded 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean in what researchers are calling a major geological discovery. A ...

The National Science Foundation has picked Maui's Haleakala mountaintop as the site for the world's largest solar optical telescope. The federal agency picked the dormant volcano last week and announced the choice Tuesday in the Federal Register. The $300 million project is due to ...

The National Science Foundation has authorized about $29 million to develop a preliminary plan to turn a 1 1/2-mile-deep former gold mine in western South Dakota into the world's deepest laboratory. The foundation says the plan will be a major tool in the decision ...