Episode 28 of Kīlauea’s summit eruption delivered a dramatic display, blasting lava 1,200 feet into the air during nine hours of nonstop volcanic fury. The once-active south vent stayed silent and is ...

During the Cold War, Operation Chrome Dome kept U.S. bombers armed with live nuclear weapons in the air 24/7—ready to strike ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

A room with a view of one of the world’s most active volcanoes? A lodge that echoes The Shining? These six hotels and resorts ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

There are far too many true believers among journalists, all eager to join AP’s Seth Borenstein in declaring this the ...

This is a repost from the archives, an older post by Henrik which has been updated to reflect more recent findings. Did you know there are 255 volcanoes or volcanic features listed in the US?

A heat wave is raising temperatures to dangerous levels across much of Europe, just days after a heat wave in North America ...

Venus is home to some of the weirdest volcanoes in the solar system—massive, flattened domes that look like planetary pancakes left to cool on the world’s blistering surface. Scientists have ...

An extinct volcano is lying hidden in Carlsbad's Calavera Nature Preserve in north San Diego County. Welcome to Mount Calavera!

Many times, the volcanoes that have eruptions that last decades are ones like Kīlauea in Hawai'i, Yasur in Vanuatu or Erebus in Antarctica, where hot, runny basalt continuously erupts in lava lakes.