In December 2026, a US-Indian satellite started capturing images of lava as it flowed from a long dormant volcano pair on the Pacific coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsular. The satellite, the ...

A volcano that has been silent since about 1550 began erupting after a big quake. A radar satellite recorded its lava spreading, twice every 12 days.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the world's most active volcanoes, provided a dramatic lava flow early Thursday morning. The ...

A new satellite image has captured a rare view of an erupting volcano, revealing its bright red lava flow as seen from space. Mayon began erupting in January 2026 when clouds of hot ash and flows of ...

Breathtaking NASA time-lapse captures volcano erupting for first time in 500 years ...

Timelapse video has shown a volcano in the Icelandic town of Grindavik erupting against the backdrop of the Northern Lights.

Five journalists and two unidentified people are missing near the Anak Krakatau volcano currently erupting in Indonesia, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction]“A world of extreme cold, 4.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, with a surface temperature of minus 235 degrees Celsius (38 Kelvin)” ...

Learn how stress inside a volcano can make gas bubbles form early, helping explain why some eruptions stay quiet instead of exploding. One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its ...