NASA has spotted what could only be described as a "space volcano" erupting in a long-dormant galaxy, reversing a theory that ...

Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran rose 3.5 inches over 10 months, signaling that it is waking up after 700,000 years of dormancy.

A 1775 design for a mechanical Mount Vesuvius eruption device has finally been built, recreating an eighteenth-century volcanic spectacle.

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to ...

Exactly 70 years ago, in March 1944, British photographer George Rodger captured the last great eruption of Italy's legendary volcano.