The sudden awakening of a volcano that had been quiet for roughly 12,000 years has transformed a remote corner of Ethiopia into a global focal point, as a towering ash plume shot into the sky like an ...

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” ...

Spectacular videos show several volcanoes erupting and spewing fiery lava. Guatemala's Volcan de Fuego, meaning volcano of fire, began spouting a constant stream of molten lava on February 23. It's ...

In A Nutshell Mars was erupting while T. rex roamed Earth: A Martian volcano system was active between 64 and 50 million years ago, overlapping with the age of dinosaurs and early mammals on our ...