The Central Tonga Islands welcomed the birth of a new baby – a baby island, that is. The new baby island emerged in the southwest Pacific Ocean, where underwater volcanoes are plentiful. One of ...

A new “baby” island has been spotted in the Pacific ocean hours after an underwater volcano erupted. NASA Earth Observatory/Cover Ima “No visible ash in the past 24 hours was reported ...

The new island is one of only three that has erupted in the last 150 years and "survived the ocean’s eroding waves longer than a few months," NASA said in a blog post.

A new 6-acre island in the Pacific Ocean, caused by an underwater volcano eruption, has been seen from space. On September 10, the Home Reef underwater volcano in Tonga began rumbling to life.

A new island has popped up in the southwest Pacific Ocean, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. This fledgling patch of land spawned out of a seafloor ridge teeming with highest density of ...

A dramatic transformation is taking place in the South Pacific, where a newly formed volcanic island is emerging from the ocean. Located in Tonga’s Home Reef, this growing landmass is the result ...