On the morning of August 27, 1883, people across large parts of the world suddenly heard what sounded like enormous cannon ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...

Multiple videos show a rare "fireball" meteor breaking apart with a flash of emerald light over the erupting Mount Mayon.

The Axial Seamount – located hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon and nearly 5,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s waves – erupted in April 2015, spewing a mile’s worth of lava onto the sea floor.

In 1883, Krakatoa exploded over Indonesia, unleashing the deadliest eruption in modern memory. A gallery of some of its most spectacular successors suggests that a similar disaster may lurk beneath ...