Scientists studying magma from the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma have discovered that extreme heat can dramatically ...

An ancient Irish volcano is challenging scientific understanding of how eruptions occur. The secrets that lie beneath ...

A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often overlooked insights into volcanic eruptions—offering important lessons for ...

Mount Etna is more than half a million years old, but this massive stratovolcano in Sicily still has plenty of gas left in the tank. The 3,400-meter behemoth is the most active volcano in Europe, ...

Frothy rock floating on the ocean near Papua New Guinea is the sign scientists needed that, hidden from view, an underwater volcano was erupting ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava flows. Others erupt violently, sending ash and molten rock high into the sky.

A Martian volcano once thought to be the result of a single eruption turns out to have a much more complex past. Orbital imaging and mineral data show it developed through multiple eruptive phases, ...

Tiny fossils reveal ocean acidification caused a major planktic foraminifera extinction. Massive volcanic eruptions released ...

Predicting volcanic eruptions before they occur is valuable for obvious reasons. The earlier scientists detect signs of an imminent eruption, the more time people will have to evacuate potentially ...

La Palma airport to remain closed until runway is cleared of ash Spain's Civil Aviation Authority (AENA) announced this morning that La Palma airport will remain closed and all flights to an from the ...

Towering explosions, flowing bright red lava and heroic scientists battling to save communities at risk have become the ...

For more than 100,000 years, a Greek volcano lay silent. But deep underground, it was still growing. Tiny zircon crystals show magma was quietly brewing between eruptions, researchers report April 22 ...