Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava ...

Footage captured a July 30 phreatomagmatic eruption at the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, launching ash 1,476 feet into the ...

A camera captured a brief phreatomagmatic eruption that occurred in the Taal Volcano's main crater in Batangas, Philippines on June 30. Phreatomagmatic eruptions differ in that they occur when magma ...

A submarine eruption north of Papua New Guinea may be building new land while satellites track its evolution from above.

Mount Etna in Italy is one of the most well-studied volcanoes in the world. It has been erupting for thousands of years, and ...

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. A study to be ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An explosive eruption at the summit of Kanlaon Volcano occurred on February 19, sending a dark ash plume around 2,000 meters above ...

Houghton remained deeply connected to Hawaii’s volcanoes and communities. He worked closely with scientists at the U.S.

When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity. These glass spheres, tiny yet mesmerizing, ...