Mount Etna in Sicily has blasted ash into the sky above Sicily leading to major travel disruption and a second day of flight ...

Kilauea’s eruption led to a rare event, creating a vortex that sent rocks, dust, and ash flying. The volcano remains one of the world's most active.

Catania Airport, used by thousands of Irish holidaymakers a year, has had to cancel all incoming flights due to safety fears, ...

HONOLULU--Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting on Tuesday, firing lava 330 feet (100 meters) into the sky from its ...

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 ...

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 dropped ...

A Boston man hoping to get a closer look at an erupting volcano plunged 30 feet off a cliff while hiking in the dark without a flashlight last week in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, officials said.

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A meteor was seen streaking through the sky next to the erupting Mayon Volcano in the Philippines on May 25, footage shows. The ...

KILAUEA VOLCANO, Hawaii -- A Utah tourist captured video of an exploding volcano in Hawaii that sent molten lava and rocks flying through the air. Diane Ririe, who was visiting her parents in ...

Tourists fled an erupting volcano that sent red-hot lava into the air.