Kilauea has erupted once more on Hawaii's Big Island, launching lava and ash an astonishing 35,000 feet into the atmosphere.

Kanlaon Volcano experienced a brief explosive eruption on Friday evening, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said. PHIVOLCS said the eruption lasted from 8:05 p.m. to ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An explosive eruption has rocked La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. The eruption followed mandatory evacuation orders from the local ...

The power of such eruptions is measured using the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), which is a scale that goes from one to ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma – and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure ...

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 ...

In a new study, researchers from the ARIES and their collaborators used computational models that simulate the behaviour of electrically conducting fluids like plasma, interacting with magnetic fields ...