This stunning astronaut photo shows the natural beauty of Japan's Aso Caldera — a giant crater-like bowl containing 17 different volcanoes, leftover from major eruptions spanning over 200,000 years.

Volcanic activity bubbling away beneath the Yellowstone National Park in the US appears to be on the move. New research shows that the reservoirs of magma that fuel the supervolcano's wild outbursts ...

The Kilauea volcano erupted Monday morning on Hawaii's Big Island following increased earthquake activity beneath its summit, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The volcano is located along the ...

Original Post: Lava once again was fountaining within the summit caldera of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island as Episode 33 of the ongoing episodic eruption inside Halemaʻumaʻu Crater entered its ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Michael Poland, geophysicist with the ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Mark Stelten, research geologist with ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Despite an explosive summer at Yellowstone National Park — marked by a thermal feature eruption ...

According to the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Kīlauea volcano’s newest eruption began at 12:30 am HST Monday morning. HVO said that lava is erupting from fissures that are located about a mile ...

Latest news about the Yellowstone Supervolcano appears to be straight out of a high-action sci-fi movie, and what makes it ...

At first glance, the region covered by this latest Mars Express image release appears to be pockmarked with impact craters. But the largest structure among them may hold a rather explosive secret: it ...