We are used to seeing eruptions from the summit region of Kilauea contained to the region that is referred to as Halema‘uma‘u ...

Sabancaya, one of South America’s most restless volcanoes, fired an ash column roughly 2,000 meters above its crater rim on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Impressive images released by French authorities showed the moment lava from an erupting volcano on Reunion Island flowed into the ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display ...

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory detected an increase in shallow seismicity and localized ground deformation beneath the ...

Spectacular videos show several volcanoes erupting and spewing fiery lava. Guatemala's Volcan de Fuego, meaning volcano of fire, began spouting a constant stream of molten lava on February 23. It's ...

Honolulu — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting on Tuesday, firing lava 330 feet into the sky from its summit crater. It's the 32nd time the volcano has released molten rock since December, when ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...