Underwater volcanoes are powerful geological forces shaping our planet and oceans. These hidden giants form through tectonic ...

Some volcanoes, such as the Cascade volcanoes up in Washington and Oregon, are of the type called a stratovolcano. These steep volcanoes sometimes erupt explosively and other times have calmer lava ...

Some scientists think we can better understand volcanoes by learning how the gaseous vortexes emerge. By Carolyn Wilke Some volcanoes perform a rather subtle trick: blowing rings of vapor that waft ...

(How volcanoes form—and why they erupt.) Their results, published in the journal Scientific Reports in 2023, revealed that these smoke rings are made much in the same way that cigarette smokers blow ...

Unusual molten rock formations, nicknamed lava eggs, have appeared near an active volcano in Iceland. Some were recently spotted by a geologist, who explained to Reuters how the egg-shaped lobes ...

The Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima prefecture in southwestern Japan erupted early Sunday, sending ash and smoke as high as 4 ...