Waves of orange, glowing lava and smoky ash belched and sputtered Monday from the world’s largest active volcano in its first ...

The 44th episode of lava fountaining on Thursday saw streams ascending over 500 feet above the vent in spectacular color.

The Kikai Caldera. (Seama Nobukazu/CC BY 4.0) About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what remains the largest known eruption of the Holocene, our current geological epoch ...

A vast eruption beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean has been confirmed as the largest volcanic event ever recorded on the ocean floor. The 2012 explosion at the Havre volcano, near New Zealand, ...

The Ontong Java Plateau (OJP), located in the Pacific Ocean, formed around 110 to 120 million years ago through massive submarine volcanic eruptions. This event is considered the most extensive ...

Following a changeable and – at times – wintry last few weeks, the thought of snow in May, sunless skies in June and and a ...

Japan’s most active volcano erupted on Saturday afternoon, sending an ash plume 3.4km into the sky, grounding flights and ...

Massive volcano in Japan refilling 7,300 years after eruption, offering new insight into supervolcano behavior and future risks ...

NASA has contributed a complementary perspective from the air. Researchers used NASA airborne remote-sensing technology to ...

A team of researchers dove deep underwater to study a underwater volcano. They discovered how the ash and rock from the ...

On June 15, 1991, the island of Luzon in the Philippines was ground zero for the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 1900s when Mount Pinatubo blew its top. This historic natural event set massive ...