A rare underwater eruption at Hunga Tonga sent water vapor into Earth’s atmosphere, cooling the stratosphere and reshaping ...

Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and ...

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 ...

“This process can be likened to a bottle of sparkling water containing dissolved volatiles that exolve when the bottle is ...

The Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island shot lava fountains as high as 1,400 feet into the air, the USGS reported.

(WJW) — You don’t see this every day. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shared a video Tuesday showing what they described as a “volnado” forming near an erupting fountain of lava in Hawaii. “We know ...

VOLCANOS, Hawaii (KHON2) — Dec. 23 marks one year since Kilauea began erupting in a rare and powerful way. Over the past year, it’s erupted 38 times, each episode a powerful reminder of just how alive ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display ...

Tephra formed by lava fountains during the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption has created a new puʻu, or hill, southwest of Halemaʻumaʻu Crater and visible from the public viewing areas around Kīlauea ...

Kilauea, in the Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii, is one of the world's most active volcanoes.