NASA's Landsat 8 satellite snapped a stunning top-down view of an "unusually spectacular" Mount Etna eruption. Infrared data ...

A red-hot lava flow two miles long has been attracting crowds to the slopes of Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, Italy.

Beneath dormant volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest, scientists found large reservoirs of magma. The discovery challenges […] ...

For those willing to endure the treacherous nighttime hike to the volcano’s crater, the reward is an unforgettable display of blue fire under the inky night sky. However, this attraction comes ...

Why it's awesome: Not all slugs blend into the background. Some, like the striking Mount Kaputar slug, stand out from the crowd. These slimy critters not only grow up to 8 inches (20 centimeters ...

Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument highlights northern Arizona’s volcanic (and explosive) past, speckled with cinder cones and long-hardened lava flows People often get Sunset Crater confused ...

Kilauea’s ongoing eruption within Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park continued Tuesday morning with vigorous lava fountains reaching heights of up to 160 feet from the north vent and 115 feet ...

Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large reservoirs of magma, new research finds. The findings have implications for monitoring volcanoes ...

They detected these reservoirs below Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Mount Hood, Newberry Volcano, Crater Lake and Lassen Peak. Three Sisters and Mount Shasta did not show similar patterns ...

Examples: Paricutin in Mexico, Sunset Crater in Arizona. – Composite volcanoes or ... Mount Fuji, Mount Shasta, Mount Cotopaxi, Mount Hood and Mount Rainier. – Lava domes: These domes are ...

Mount Rainier - one of many volcanoes found in ... Their results are surprising given that some of these volcanoes, such as the Crater Lake volcano in Oregon, have not been active in millennia.