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

Carlingford Mountain preserves the fossilized remains of the magma network that supplied volcanoes roughly 60 million years ...

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

Io should be a frozen distant moon, but instead it is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. Hundreds of ...

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 ...

Large volcanic eruptions from the Pacific Ring of Fire influenced past climate. These eruptions correlate with major glacial ...

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, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcanic eruption was the largest eruption in the 21 st century, sending up the highest plume ever recorded. A new ...