A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. A webcam on Tuesday shows vigorous streams of red ...

An increase in seismic activity has prompted predictions that a mile-wide submarine volcano named the Axial Seamount will ...

A man who caught an incredible eruption at the Dukono volcano in Indonesia on camera was eager to strike a pose in front of ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, erupted for the seventh time since December on Monday ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is currently spewing fiery red-orange lava up to 250 feet high from its north vent – in what’s ...

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Renowned seismologist Costas Synolakis claimed that the earthquakes rattling Santorini may indicate the birth of a new ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, ...