The sudden awakening of a volcano that had been quiet for roughly 12,000 years has transformed a remote corner of Ethiopia into a global focal point, as a towering ash plume shot into the sky like an ...

A dramatic video from the Philippines has captured what looked like a meteor crashing into the erupting Mayon Volcano, creating a rare and almost cinematic moment in the night sky. But scientists say ...

Stunning new footage shows a bright-green "fireball" meteor exploding in the skies over an erupting volcano in the Philippines. Initial reports suggested that the falling space rock may have struck ...

Nearly 600 years ago, a massive volcanic eruption sent clouds of sulfurous gas and ash high into the atmosphere. The blast known as the 1458/59 CE event was so huge that it triggered decades of ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A 4.1 magnitude quake has struck in Iceland Tuesday night near a rare Icelandic volcano that started erupting on March 19. The volcano in the Fagradalsfjall mountains is about 20 ...

COSMIC radiation has been used to peer inside an erupting volcano, a technique that could allow eruptions to be predicted. Short-lived particles called muons are produced in Earth’s atmosphere when ...

Erupting volcanoes spew molten lava, gas and rocks up into the air. But just how high can the lava go and how do eruptions work? That’s what eight-year-old Thomas from Leeds in the UK wanted to know.

GUATEMALA — Looking at this YouTube vid for too long might lead to a sensory overload. In just over 10 seconds, there's a shot of a sea of clouds, a sunrise — and a volcano exploding to top things off ...