Dozens of people have evacuated two towns on Japan's main southern island of Kyushu, where a volcano spewed ash and large rocks into the nighttime sky. The rocks fell as far as 1.5 miles from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magma becomes lava when it rises up to the Earth’s surface, like when the Nyiragongo volcano erupted in the Democratic Republic ...

(Reuters) - The latest bursts of molten rock, ash and toxic gas from Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii are part of an ever changing and still largely mysterious cycle of eruptions that have ...

Kilauea volcano erupted Tuesday on Hawaii's Big Island, shooting lava fountains up to 1,000 feet high and sending ash and volcanic debris across nearby communities.

Hydrothermal activity detected for the first time in the underwater volcano between Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Experts issue warning.

A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows molten rock, gases, and debris to escape from below the surface. The ...

An explosive eruption rocked La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Friday after the government ordered thousands to evacuate their homes nearby. Experts said the ash ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. With its greenish-brownish color, Erg Chech 002 (EC 002) might ...

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

Follow along as we outline the journey of one of our volcanic samples used for geochemical analysis and the information we glean at each step. If it is a lava flow, is it ‘a‘a or pahoehoe? Is the ...

The first samples from the farside of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south pole. Two separate analyses of lunar rocks brought to Earth by China’s Chang’e-6 ...