Video. Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has entered a new eruptive episode, sending lava fountains into the air while remaining ...

Volcanoes are active globally, offering exciting hiking opportunities. Travellers can safely climb Mount Etna in Italy, ...

Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and ...

Past episodes have produced incandescent lava fountains over 1,000 feet high that produce eruptive plumes up to 20,000 feet ...

Another spectacular eruption at one of the most active volcanoes in the world has destroyed the camera volcanologists use to ...

In a new study, researchers show that gas bubbles can form in the rising magma not only due to a drop in pressure but also due to shear forces. If these gas bubbles grow in the volcanic vent early on ...

A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since — including a large event in November — means it has now almost completely regrown.

Update at 10:44 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports that Episode 38 of the ongoing episodic eruption inside Halemaʻumaʻu Crater in the summit caldera of Kīlauea volcano ...

The smaller of the two islands that comprise the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Nevis is "real, authentic, and ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has entered a new eruptive episode, sending lava fountains into the air while remaining contained ...

Scientists have discovered that shear forces inside rising magma can create gas bubbles long before pressure drops occur. The intensity of a volcanic eruption is shaped by how many gas bubbles develop ...

While volcanoes play an important role in shaping landscapes and enriching soil, their destructive power far outweighs their scenic appeal when they awaken without warning.