Great Sitkin volcano, sitting in Alaska’s central Aleutian Islands, has been slowly pushing lava out of its summit crater ...

A 2021 satellite photo shows an unusual series of concentric cloud rings that appeared directly above an erupting volcano on ...

Volcanologist Martin Mangler explains how volcanic eruptions work to push lava into the air. Listen on the The Conversation’s ...

When lava shot into the air at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, the fountaining set a new record for the volcano which has been erupting for more than a year.

Terrified tourists were seen scrambling for cover as they were pelted with lava from an exploding volcano in Guatemala.

The Titan Ridge Volcano is erupting in the Bismarck Sea, sending ash and smoke into the sky and prompting authorities to warn of possible tsunamis in the area.

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A volcano that slept for more than 100,000 years before erupting is blowing up our understanding of when volcanoes should be defined as active or extinct. Volcanologists officially classify sleeping ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...