Nearly 600 years ago, a massive volcanic eruption sent clouds of sulfurous gas and ash high into the atmosphere. The blast known as the 1458/59 CE event was so huge that it triggered decades of ...

A volcano in Guatemala erupted at sunrise this June. Chase Boehringer climbed 14,000 feet at the summit of Acatenango Volcano ...

Great Sitkin volcano, sitting in Alaska’s central Aleutian Islands, has been slowly pushing lava out of its summit crater since July 2021. Five years into this eruption, the volcano shows no signs of ...

The volcano on the Italian island of Sicily has been increasingly active during the past week, spewing lava, ash and rock from several fissures. Rivers of lava have flowed down Mount Etna, threatening ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A 4.1 magnitude quake has struck in Iceland Tuesday night near a rare Icelandic volcano that started erupting on March 19. The volcano in the Fagradalsfjall mountains is about 20 ...

Stunning new footage shows a bright-green "fireball" meteor exploding in the skies over an erupting volcano in the Philippines. Initial reports suggested that the falling space rock may have struck ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

Erupting volcanoes spew molten lava, gas and rocks up into the air. But just how high can the lava go and how do eruptions work? That’s what eight-year-old Thomas from Leeds in the UK wanted to know.