On December 27, 1935, something unusual happened in the skies above Hawaiʻi. US military aircraft dropped 40 bombs, not on an enemy, but on a river of molten lava pouring down the slopes of Mauna Loa.

The lava that buried entire neighborhoods during the 2018 Kīlauea eruption was composed of nearly 80% gas bubbles near its source. A recent study shows that those bubbles played a central role in ...

A volcanic eruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sent a huge flood of lava burning through the city of Goma and surrounding villages, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their ...

A lava-collapse pyroclastic density current (PDC) was observed at Mayon Volcano on Wednesday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). In an update, ...

It had been dormant for 800 years, but in March 2021, the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland came to life. While the eruption was ongoing, large-scale field experiments were conducted to build ...