Mount Etna in Sicily has blasted ash into the sky above Sicily leading to major travel disruption and a second day of flight ...

The latest eruption from Mount Etna, which is on the island of Sicily, lit up the night sky and could be seen from miles away ...

Volcanologist Martin Mangler explains how volcanic eruptions work to push lava into the air. Listen on the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.

Catania Airport, used by thousands of Irish holidaymakers a year, has had to cancel all incoming flights due to safety fears, ...

One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its eruption with a trickle, not a blast. Mount St. Helens' gas-laden magma oozed into the cone before the mountain finally erupted in 1980.

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu had multiple eruptions on Sunday, Nov. 16, sending a plume of smoke and ash almost three miles into the air, causing tens of flight cancellations ...

A gif of the footage can be seen just below. Yesterday, Hawai'i's Kīlauea had its 49th eruptive episode, with lava fountains reaching about 700 feet (210 meters) into the air.

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...