The huge ash cloud came from Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, forcing evacuations and swathes of flight cancellations across Asia and Australia.

Essentially, gas pistoning is a shallow, degassing-driven rise and fall of a lava surface. Often these pistons occur in ...

Researchers have documented many spectacular effects of the underwater eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai, such as the ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

The latest eruption within Kilauea volcano’s Halemaumau crater “ended abruptly at 10:25 a.m.” today after another brief but ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Stephanie Coral Browitt survived the devastating White Island volcano eruption and embarked on a grief-stricken path to ...

In 1831, a mystery eruption occurred, causing a 1°C drop in global temperatures only recently identified in a paper by scientists.

An increase in seismicity—marked by frequent tremors—was observed recently at Alaska's Iliamna Volcano, which last erupted in ...

By using high-resolution fossil data and advanced computing tools, the scientists revealed that over 300 million years ago, ...