A live camera is now locked on Semeru Volcano, Indonesia’s highest and one of its most active peaks. The stream captures the ...

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 plumbing systems of volcanoes are vast and complex. But they aren't consistent, even in the same volcano. A Cornell-led ...

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. A study to be ...

Eruption fountaining has finally concluded at around 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 14. Lava fountaining began once more from ...

Scientists have shed light on a thermal process in magma that may help explain why similar volcanic systems can produce very ...

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” ...

During lava fountaining episodes, strong volcanic tremor — a signal associated with fluid movement — is recorded on seismic ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. In this study, we demonstrate that explosive volcanism on early Mars could have served as a robust mechanism for delivering and ...

Multiple videos show a rare "fireball" meteor breaking apart with a flash of emerald light over the erupting Mount Mayon. Initial reports suggested that the falling space rock hit the volcano, but ...

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ice sheets have suppressed eruptions for thousands of years, building up ...