It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.

Fallout of the particles, as big as footballs, were reported at overlooks in the Hawai'i Volcanoes National park.

A new NASA satellite image has captured a rare view of an erupting volcano, revealing its bright red lava flow as seen from ...

Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Tuesday in a nine-hour spectacular, shooting fountains of lava some 1,300 feet into the air, according to the U.S. Geolog ...

One of the most deadly and dangerous volcano hazards isn’t lava. Mudflows called lahars can come without clear warning.

One of Earth’s most active volcanoes, Kīlauea, has erupted again for the 43rd time in Hawai's Big Island. USGS reported the ...

I n its latest eruption event, Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano sent a fountain of lava 540 meters (1,770 feet) up into the sky in what is a new record for this eruption, which began in December 2024. Some of ...

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that are expelled during eruptions and then dissipate over time as the volcanoes ...

Scientists noted the eruption stayed mostly contained within the volcano's usual zone, but the long flow of the eruption, stretching about 7 kilometres, made it special.

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

It’s winter, and the SciFri team is already dreaming of warmer weather. How about a mind vacation to one of the hottest places on earth, an erupting volcano? Tamsin Mather has trekked to volcanoes in ...

What is a super eruption and how did they create the geology of Yellowstone? Where is the world's largest, most explosive, and most unusual volcano? It's Yellowstone National Park. The Yellowstone ...