NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to people.

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spearheads Volcano Awareness Month each January on the Island of Hawaii. This year, in ...

In 2018, an eruption destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents, as a series of explosive fissure eruptions occurred.

This massive collection of basalt columns is linked to a volcanic fissure eruption. That's when a fissure in the Earth's crust lets the contents of a subsurface magma chamber out – with ...

A three-video compilation showing blazes in Algeria, Ghana, and Iceland has been misrepresented on social media as footage of the Los Angeles wildfires.

Susan Merle/Oregon State University In between eruptions, the accumulation of ... spreading along a fissure that follows the undersea ridge. As more and more lava oozes out, large flows more ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

The eruption began when a large fissure opened up about 30 miles (45 km) northeast of the volcano's caldera and created a large lava field known as Holuhraun, which translates to "the hollow lava ...