One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its eruption with a trickle, not a blast. Mount St. Helens' gas-laden magma oozed into the cone before the mountain finally erupted in 1980.

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu had multiple eruptions on Sunday, Nov. 16, sending a plume of smoke and ash almost three miles into the air, causing tens of flight cancellations ...

A travel vlogger captured stunning footage of a volcano erupting in Indonesia. Ryan Purvis caught the Aug. 14 eruption on video, showing smoke pluming from the volcano into the air. Mount Semeru, ...

Watch: Reunion resident gets close to lava from erupting volcano Close Tourists and locals have been gathered on the Reunion Island to see lava flowing from a volcano that has been erupting for over a ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the erupting fountains at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano were spewing lava as high as 1,250 feet. The glowing fountains created a visual spectacle at the west ...

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” ...

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 ...

Kilauea, a volcano in Hawaii, started erupting Tuesday morning, spewing football-sized particles into the air, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the eruption at ...

If only there were a simple trick to stop a massive volcano from spewing out lava. Like maybe plugging it up with good old ...

After 15 months of intense and disruptive earthquakes on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, the region finally let off some pressure. On March 19, lava roared out of the ground in the uninhabited valley ...