Now the climbing starts in earnest, first through a field of boulders and bedrock ledges. The rock is volcanic and is known as dacite ... To the south is Mormon Mountain, and towards the southwest you ...

Did, for instance, any Latter-day Saints die in the Mountain Meadows Massacre carried out by Mormon militiamen? Did Native tribes participate in the atrocity? Did Brigham Young order the massacre?

Tithing has long been seen by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a test, a trial, if you will, of faith. Well, now the practice of donating a tenth of one’s income is ...

When Mormon militiamen burned down the fort on Oct. 7, 1857, they did so to thwart the approaching troops during the Utah War. In “American Primeval,” the Mormons purchase and burn down the ...

The shadowy mass, known as the Haruj volcanic field, covers around 17,000 square miles (44,000 square kilometers) in central Libya and contains roughly 150 extinct volcanoes, ranging from small ...

It’s one of the most harrowing scenes in Netflix’s grim Western. But is its depiction of the Mountain Meadows atrocities accurate? Everyone knows about the events of 9/11. But few are aware ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

About 4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs ... coincided with a large volcanic eruption that made ...

The earthquakes have also sparked fears of volcanic eruptions because they are happening near two active volcanoes, Fentale and Dofen. The Conversation Africa asked volcano researcher Amdemichael ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

More than 130 earthquakes were registered Tuesday at Iceland's large Bardarbunga volcano, a possible precursor to an eruption among the several scenarios being considered, the Icelandic ...