How did young volcanoes on Mars form? This is what a recent study published in the journal Geology hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated th | Space ...

When geologists study volcanic hazards or try to anticipate what a volcano may do in the future, one of their primary tools is to examine the volcano’s past behavior.

Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral role in marine geology and may cause destructive tsunamis that can ...

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 ...

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in Hawaii and Guatemala that made headlines worldwide in recent months. And ...

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st display of molten ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

Guatemala is in a state of emergency. The eruption of “Volcán de Fuego” (Volcano of Fire), located less than 30 miles away from Guatemala City, has killed at least 99 people and left nearly 200 more ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The volcano Krasheninnikov erupted for the first time in about 500 years following the 8.8 ...