Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

Volcanologist Martin Mangler explains how volcanic eruptions work to push lava into the air. Listen on the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.

Mount Etna in Sicily has blasted ash into the sky above Sicily leading to major travel disruption and a second day of flight ...

The lava that buried entire neighborhoods during the 2018 Kīlauea eruption was composed of nearly 80% gas bubbles near its ...

Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A ...

Footage captured a July 30 phreatomagmatic eruption at the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, launching ash 1,476 feet into the air and creating minor tsunami waves.

Taal Volcano in the Philippines recorded its fourth phreatomagmatic eruption this month, sending a 450‑metre plume into the sky. Phivolcs warns that despite Alert Level 1, sudden eruptions, ashfall, ...

For more than 100,000 years, a Greek volcano lay silent. But deep underground, it was still growing. Tiny zircon crystals show magma was quietly brewing between eruptions, researchers report April 22 ...

A gif of the footage can be seen just below. Yesterday, Hawai'i's Kīlauea had its 49th eruptive episode, with lava fountains reaching about 700 feet (210 meters) into the air.

Europe’s largest active volcano Mount Etna has erupted once more with fresh drone footage showing bright orange lava pouring from its fissure. Mount Etna’s latest eruption began on Friday from a ...