Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From lava fountains to towering ash clouds, volcanoes produce some of the most dramatic ...

Some scientists think we can better understand volcanoes by learning how the gaseous vortexes emerge. By Carolyn Wilke Some volcanoes perform a rather subtle trick: blowing rings of vapor that waft ...

Scientists exploring the deep Pacific Ocean have uncovered a strange “yellow brick road” on the seabed near Hawaii. The ...

March 29 (UPI) --A merger of many ice volcanoes form Pluto's two mane mountains, a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications reveals -- and what they've found suggests the planet is an ocean ...

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam. In the following weeks, water, boiling-hot ...

In an effort to better understand volcanic activity and its origins on Earth and beyond, University researchers have examined the creation of magma chambers to help explain why these chambers exist at ...

UC Berkeley researchers discovered previously unknown zones of slow seismic waves, which may help determine the process of the formation of hotspot volcanoes. Taking seismic wave data from multiple ...

Volcanic eruptions are perhaps nature's most terrifying display of power. Catastrophic eruptions of volcanoes like Mount Vesuvius, Krakatoa, and Mount St. Helens have gone down as some of the most ...

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 ...