The Alaskan Volcano Observatory has shared new images of plumes of gas streaming out of Mount Spurr, which scientists suspect ...

Geologists say Hawaii's Kilauea volcano shot lava as high as 1,000 feet into the air during its most recent eruptive episode ...

Mount Spurr has been showing signs of an eruption since last year, but scientists think one is even more imminent.

The eruption restarted at midday when when molten rock began pouring out of a vent in Kilauea’s summit caldera, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said in a statement. The lava was contained within the ...

How do volcanologists determine the height of eruptive plumes from Yellowstone’s past explosive eruptions? Ironically, you ...

The known sequence of Maunaloa’s 1868 events began with an eruptive phase beginning at about dawn March 27 at the summit, lasting a couple of hours. Seismicity escalated thereafter, with Kaʻū ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

The eruption lasted 29 hours between 9:26 a.m. Hawaiian time Wednesday through 1:49 p.m. Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. During the last eight hours, fountains shot up to 600 feet ...

He also urged residents, visitors and tourists to stay at least 3 km from the mountain summit and refrain from camping overnight near the volcano’s crater and calderas." Thursday's eruption was ...

It stands 11,070 feet tall and is located about 75 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city ... put more simply, a volcanic eruption that happens under a glacier creating a depression ...