Where Volcanoes Are Born 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 ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Huge lava fountains and plumes of ash were seen being sent high into the night sky over the weekend. Find out more here.

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 ...

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

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

1959 Kīlauea Iki eruption: It happened in the crater just north of the volcano’s caldera, lasting only about a month with 17 ...

Experience the leading edge of nature's drama as Mount Etna thunders into action in a spectacular eruption that draws ...

The Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island shot lava fountains as high as 1,400 feet into the air, the USGS reported.

The left map shows the tephra fall associated with Kilauea’s episodic summit eruption, from December 2024 to December 2025.

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted again, marking the one-year anniversary of a continuous on-off volcano eruption. More than 1 ...