Although volcanic eruptions are spectacular natural events that occur around the world every day, most volcanoes spend the ...

The discovery has revealed a hidden process that could change how scientists understand volcanic systems.

A volcanic formation known as Pele’s hair is produced when air-filled magma is stretched, according to a new study by a team ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcano eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai ...

Consider a can of soda. When the can is closed (pressurized), the soda contains dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2). When you open the can, the pressure drops, bubbles form and rise. Molten rock (magma) ...

Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that ...

The Laacher See volcano in Germany has emitted a new deep signal, and scientists are analyzing changes beneath the surface ...

Should anyone ever decide to make a show called "CSI: Geology," a group of scientists studying a mysterious and rapidly inflating South American volcano have got the perfect storyline. Researchers ...

It was small by volcanic standards, but massive by human ones: on this day in 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in what the ...