On Monday morning local time, a huge cloud of ash, hot gas and rock fragments began spewing from Italy’s Mount Etna. An enormous plume was seen stretching several kilometres into the sky from the ...

Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active ...

Satellites soaring high above Earth have revealed exactly how wispy clouds are created by the giant plumes of ash belched upwards in a volcanic eruption. Volcanoes play a vital role in the cycles ...

Some Pacific Northwesterners woke Tuesday to an unusual sight: A smoky haze shrouded Mount St. Helens, the large, active stratovolcano in Washington state that erupted catastrophically in 1980. But a ...

On the flanks of Washington State Mount Rainier, a spike in seismic rumbling has revived an old, unsettling question for the ...

The Coconucos volcanic chain is a mountain ridge dotted with at least 14 volcano craters, including one that is active and ...

A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since — including a large event in November — means it has now almost completely regrown. When you ...

Rising more than twice the height of Mount Everest, Olympus Mons dominates the landscape of Mars and holds the title of the ...

Japanese meteorological agencies said the Shinmoedake volcano had erupted in the early hours of Thursday morning, August 28, sending a plume of ash 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles) into the sky. Officials ...

An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...

When the Black Death swept through Europe beginning in 1347, the plague wiped out more than half of the continent’s population, upending societies and interrupting wars. New research suggests that a ...