A VOLCANO thought to be dead has roared into life and risen from the ground – sparking fears of its first eruption for ...

Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions are rare — but inevitable. Governments should not only work to stem global warming, but also prepare for other extreme events with a planet-wide impact. The 1815 massive ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

Is there anything more spectacular than a towering lava fountain? Think about what it is: glowing red molten rock being shot into the sky, potentially hundreds or thousands of feet. As ubiquitous and ...

Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, sending an enormous plume of tiny sun-reflecting particles high into the ...

Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet's equator, ...

Fountains from the south vent at Kilauea’s summit crater soared 1,300 feet (400 meters) into the air, the U.S. Geological Survey said. That is taller than New York’s Empire State Building which is ...

New research suggests that this mystery platinum signature underneath the Greenland ice sheet may have originated from a ...