After a year of explosive episodes, the summit continues inflating with fountaining possible as early as Wednesday.

The ocean covers most of our planet, yet so much of it is still a mystery. Beneath the surface is a massive, dark world where ...

Saint Kitts and Nevis is a twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles, covering a combined area of 104 square miles. Its capital, Basseterre, is situated on the island of Saint ...

University of Birmingham volcanologist Mike Cassidy argued that the biggest danger could come, not from Yellowstone and Mount Etna, but from hidden volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely ...

The U.S. Embassy in Japan warns travelers about increased eruptions at Sakurajima volcano. "Do not enter the restricted 2 km radius around the Minamidake crater," the alert states. Travelers should ...

View of Mount Rainier from Pinnacle Peak trail in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington State, USA. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images) USGS Volcanoes, a USGS social media ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...

TOKYO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - A volcano on Japan's major western island of Kyushu erupted multiple times on Sunday, sending a plume of smoke and ash as high as 4.4 kilometres (2.73 miles) into the air and ...

When you think of the United States, images of sprawling cities and vast landscapes might come to mind, but not the hidden and ever-present geological threat: volcanoes. While you might associate ...

The Taftan volcano in Iran frequently expels gas, but has not erupted. A volcano that has been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years could be gearing up for a massive explosion, according to new ...

It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about when the Beemerville Volcano erupted in Wantage, give or ...

An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...