1959 Kīlauea Iki eruption: It happened in the crater just north of the volcano’s caldera, lasting only about a month with 17 ...

This story was updated on Dec. 24, 2025. A year ago on Dec. 23, 2024, one of the world’s most active volcanoes awoke.   That ...

An episode of lava fountaining at Kilauea ended early today after nearly six hours of continuous activity inside Halemaumau ...

Most tourists who visit Yellowstone National Park snap photos of Old Faithful and stroll past bubbling mud pots, never ...

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 ...

Dec. 23, 2025 marks one year since the ongoing eruption at Kīlauea began, bringing glowing displays of lava and fountains sometimes as tall as the Empire State Building.

The left map shows the tephra fall associated with Kilauea’s episodic summit eruption, from December 2024 to December 2025.

The perfect relaxing thing to sneak off and watch whilst your family argues over the post-Christmas dinner game of Monopoly.

The reason the region is safe is because, aside from Yellowstone being closed during the winter months, it has not yet ...

Across the United States, scientists who track the country’s most powerful volcano systems are picking up new signals that ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...