1959 Kīlauea Iki eruption: It happened in the crater just north of the volcano’s caldera, lasting only about a month with 17 ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 ...

One notable incident came on May 22, 1919, when a barrage of eruptive activity caused a 1,000-kilogram (2,205-pound) block of ...

Kilauea, in the Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii, is one of the world's most active volcanoes.

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten rock since ...

A volcano on Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula erupted overnight into Sunday for the first time in at least 400 years. The Krasheninnikov volcano sent ash more than 3.7 miles into the sky, ...

Scientists from Mexico’s National Autonomous University have created the first three-dimensional image of the Popocatépetl ...

The 1815 eruption produced 60 megatons of sulfur, and as a result, average global temperatures dropped by around 3°C (5.4°F).