Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

Thanks to a dense array of sensors on the volcano’s summit and flanks, scientists know that Axial Seamount has been swelling with magma and getting taller, a sign that it’s ready to go off.

The Axial Seamount is predicted to erupt in 2025, presenting a rare opportunity for scientists to test their models—tools that hold the potential to save lives.

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds ... abyssal hills, small seamounts and continental margins. Abyssal hills — parallel ridges ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the ...

An active undersea volcano near Oregon’s coast is predicted to erupt in 2025, according to scientists. The Axial Seamount is 300 miles from the coastline and a mile beneath the ocean’s surface and has ...

After the 2015 eruption, Axial’s sea floor ... into the ocean and captures images and lava flow samples for the team back on ...

Axial Seamount off Oregon's coast is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest, about 300 miles offshore and just under a mile beneath the ocean waves.

Seamounts are towering underwater mountains, often formed by volcanic activity, that serve as essential habitats for a wide range of marine species. Stretching across the ocean floor, these ...

The Axial Seamount is not expected to threaten human population centres but it could help scientists forecast the eruption of ...

Unlike the Pacific Northwest’s steep-sloped Cascade volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens or Mount Hood that tend to explode ...