The Sakurajima Volcano erupted and spewed lava in Japan. Dramatic footage shows the volcano releasing a towering plume of ash ...

The disaster began midday on August 24 or October 24, 79 CE, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of volcanic fragments and gas into the air.

While the town around him was engulfed by searing pyroclastic flows, one man achieved the impossible from a prison cell with ...

A rare satellite image captures Mount Vesuvius peeking through a mysterious cloud gap, sparking concerns about the volcano's past and future eruption threats to nearby Naples, Italy.

"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really ...

Read about the volcano that some believe almost wiped ... After the explosion, a gigantic mushroom cloud of hot ash rose many thousands of meters into the stratosphere. Meanwhile, superheated ...

which can include ash, pumice, and larger volcanic rocks. Umbrella cloud: A type of volcanic cloud that spreads laterally at high altitudes, often associated with explosive eruptions. Volumetric ...

The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really support this?

The Papua New Guinea division reported the ash plume rising at least 5,000 meters (16,000 feet) on Tuesday before becoming lost in atmospheric cloud. The small volcanic particles in ash plumes can ...

JAKARTA, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A volcano located in Indonesia's eastern island of Halmahera erupted on Wednesday morning spewing a four-km (2.5-mile) high ash cloud, forcing authorities to raise the ...