Scientists directly observed a massive underwater volcanic eruption that created new oceanic crust, offering rare insight ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava flows.

Submarine volcanoes, volcanic structures hidden beneath the ocean surface, play a vital role in shaping Earth’s geology and marine ecosystems. Formed through tectonic plate movements, rising magma, ...

Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A ...

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 ...

HONOLULU — 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 ...

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 ...

Livestream footage of the Kilauea volcanic eruption caught the moment a whirlwind impacted one of the cameras placed on the ...

Satellites have detected an underwater eruption in the Bismarck Sea, potentially forming a new island. The event offers a ...

Since Mount Shinmoedake began erupting on June 22, experts are continuing to closely monitor the southern Kyushu volcano in ...

In May 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted catastrophically. It resulted in one of the largest natural disasters in American history, claiming 57 lives and even darkening the sun. It ...