Many Hawaiʻi Island communities downwind from the eruptive vents in the southwest portion of Halemaʻumaʻu Crater inside the ...

Learn more about the past eruptions at Yellowstone National Park and how each new eruption displaced evidence of the past.

Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense advises Big Island residents and visitors to take precautions in areas impacted by falling ash and tephra from Kīlauea volcano.

The Durandag mud volcano, known for its periodic activity, entered a new eruption phase, producing a powerful outburst that ...

But some refused to evacuate during the hazardous lava fountaining episode.

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, ...

When massive volcanic eruptions occur, they inject millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where it forms sulfate aerosols that scatter incoming solar radiation and result in global ...

While many science books would have you believe the Earth's lower mantle—the layer deep below the crust—is smooth, it's actually made up of a mountainous-like topography that moves and changes just ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...