Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island could fire off its 49th eruptive episode as soon as mid-June, according to forecast models released by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...

Researchers pinpointed a historic eruption from Oregon's Newberry Volcano to 686 AD, using ice core data from Greenland. The ...

Kilauea, located on Hawaii's Big Island, is showing signs of imminent activity, according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory ...

Scientists have shed light on a thermal process in magma that may help explain why similar volcanic systems can produce very different eruptive behaviors.

Over the last year and a half, the historic episodic eruption at the summit of Kilauea has had 49 episodes of lava ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

An active underwater volcano off the Oregon Coast that was predicted to erupt in 2025 is now expected to erupt mid-to-late 2026. The Axial Seamount volcano is located nearly a mile beneath the sea, ...

In a.d. 79, the world's most dangerous volcano buried the town of Pompeii. The next blast could be much bigger.