See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of ...

The inside of a charred scroll has been deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried during a huge ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed its latest eruption on Monday, sending fountains of lava shooting more than 250 feet in the air. Photos of the geological spectacle at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park ...

Photos show newly-uncovered footprints, formed as Bronze Age people trampled a freshly-ejected layer of volcanic material when they ran away. Known as the Avellino eruption, the 1995 BC event ...

Take Iceland, for example. With the region facing numerous eruptions from a volcano since the end of 2023, dramatic photos and video show lava shooting from a long fissure that opened up.

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed its latest eruption on Monday, sending fountains of lava shooting more than 250 feet in the air. Photos of the geological spectacle at Hawaii Volcanoes National ...

(See dramatic photos of volcanoes around the world ... can help signal the start of potentially dangerous eruptions of farflung volcanoes.) Unlike earthquakes, volcanoes rouse from sleep with ...

Kilauea’s recent eruption, which started on Dec. 23, 2024, has been marked by episodic fountaining, not seen in any of the other Halemaumau eruptions since 2020. Each episode in the eruption has ...

A new volcanic hotspot on Jupiter’s moon Io has been detected, releasing six times Earth’s total energy output.

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. A webcam on Tuesday shows vigorous streams of red ...