Volcanoes often look deceptively quiet until the moment they unleash towering plumes of ash and gas, yet the precise switch that turns a gentle rumble into a devastating blast has remained stubbornly ...

The ash cloud drifted over northern India, causing some flight delays and cancellations, and continued toward China.

Vesuvius shaped life in the Bay of Naples for millennia. Its history and civil protection plans show how communities balance ...

The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano, long thought to be dormant, sent ash nine miles into the sky in an eruption on Sunday ...

A new study explains why even gas-rich, supposedly explosive volcanoes sometimes erupt quietly instead of blowing apart.

Sunday marked the first official record of the Hayli Gubbi volcano, in Ethiopia's remote Danakil region, erupting.

Scientists have discovered that shear forces inside rising magma can create gas bubbles long before pressure drops occur. The ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was ...

Indonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, covering villages in ash and prompting evacuations. Authorities raised the alert to the ...