Yellowstone has erupted three times in the past 2.1 million years, and each event buried large portions of North America ...

Far beneath the forests and hot springs of the American West, the continent’s largest active volcanic system is rumbling in ...

On the Big Island of Hawaii, the Kilauea volcano has been erupting intermittently since Tuesday.

Tephra formed by lava fountains during the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption has created a new puʻu, or hill, southwest of ...

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the big-name volcanoes like Yellowstone and Mount Etna in Sicily that pose the greatest ...

Update at 7:58 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025: The latest National Weather Service radar data indicate that volcanic ash from ...

As the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted again last week, lava was captured spinning into the air like a dust devil, creating a "lavanado." Stunning video footage captured by Scott Malis on Feb. 26 ...

Olympus Mons, a shield volcano on Mars, is the largest volcano in the solar system, measuring approximately 370 miles in diameter and 26 kilometers in height. The formation of Olympus Mons and three ...

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Learn more about volcanic activity on Mars and how it may have once provided vital elements to the atmosphere.

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...