Watch: Reunion resident gets close to lava from erupting volcano Close Tourists and locals have been gathered on the Reunion Island to see lava flowing from a volcano that has been erupting for over a ...

One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its eruption with a trickle, not a blast. Mount St. Helens' gas-laden magma oozed into the cone before the mountain finally erupted in 1980.

The sudden awakening of a volcano that had been quiet for roughly 12,000 years has transformed a remote corner of Ethiopia into a global focal point, as a towering ash plume shot into the sky like an ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

A travel vlogger captured stunning footage of a volcano erupting in Indonesia. Ryan Purvis caught the Aug. 14 eruption on video, showing smoke pluming from the volcano into the air. Mount Semeru, ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the erupting fountains at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano were spewing lava as high as 1,250 feet. The glowing fountains created a visual spectacle at the west ...

After 15 months of intense and disruptive earthquakes on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, the region finally let off some pressure. On March 19, lava roared out of the ground in the uninhabited valley ...

Kilauea, a volcano in Hawaii, started erupting Tuesday morning, spewing football-sized particles into the air, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the eruption at ...

The Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano is erupting in Kamchatka following a major earthquake in the region, the Kamchatka Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences' (RAS) Geophysical Service said in a ...