By Dean Murray A Hawaiian volcano looks like a scene from "The Lord of the Rings" as it spews lava this week. A United States ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Want to add some heat to your hikes? Try these six active volcano hikes, from Japan to Italy to Guatemala and everywhere in between.

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

Active lava flows now cover approximately 15-20 percent of the crater floor,” the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. With the eruption comes multiple health hazards ...

"It appears that these magma bodies exist beneath volcanoes over their whole lifetime, not just during an active state." The magma chambers discovered in the current study aren't poised to cause ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Scientists in Iceland say there is an increasing likelihood that a volcano, which has erupted several times since the end of 2023, will spring to life once again as magma ...

Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago may finally be starting to reveal their secrets. UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to ...

When this pressure is released, for example as a result of plate movement, magma shoots to the surface causing a volcanic eruption. Above the ground the liquid rock is called lava and as it cools ...