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

Update at 4:34 a.m. Dec. 24, 2025: Episode 39 of the ongoing episodic eruption within Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at the summit of ...

A year ago on Dec. 23, 2024, one of the world’s most active volcanoes awoke.   That morning, lava fountains spewed from a ...

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

Nearly a year into Kīlauea’s dramatic summit eruptions, scientists say the volcano is offering a rare, safe, and incredibly ...

The eruption lasted for just over 12 hours. Kīlauea spewed more than 3 billion gallons (16 million cubic yards) of lava during this event—enough to fill 25,000 Olympic swimming pools. The eruptive ...

An underwater volcanic eruption on Oct. 30 has birthed a new island in the Pacific after the explosion flung huge chunks of rock into a pile off the coast of Japan's Iwo Jima island. An aircraft ...