Huge lava fountains and plumes of ash were seen being sent high into the night sky over the weekend. Find out more here.

A new model has revealed that a mega volcano eruption drove the dinosaurs to extinction — not the infamous Chicxulub meteor that smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula over 66 million years ago.

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Drone footage has captured the moment lava flowed into a fishing town and set fire to houses after a volcano erupted in southern Iceland. The video shows fountains of lava spraying up from the mass of ...

On the flanks of Washington State Mount Rainier, a spike in seismic rumbling has revived an old, unsettling question for the ...

So. It’s December 31, and that means one thing: that the world – and specifically, Axial Seamount, the volcano lying on the ...

NEW ORLEANS — One year ago, scientists made a surprisingly concrete prediction: Before 2025 was out, they said, Axial volcano — a submerged seamount near Oregon in the Northern Pacific Ocean — would ...

When volcanoes are preparing to erupt, scientists rely on typical signs to warn people living nearby: deformation of the ground and earthquakes, caused by underground chambers filling up with magma ...