Geologically speaking, things are always changing at Yellowstone—especially in the hydrothermal areas. It’s simply the nature ...

A new volcanic vent was discovered at Yellowstone National Park, the U.S. Geological Survey announced this week.

On the day that the image was taken, the lava flow covered a two-mile-long course ... and the Landsat image also captures a volcanic plume drifting away from the summit in a northeasterly direction.

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Volcano Observatory to issue a yellow alert.

Turns out, the wind carried the glassy strands 30 miles from Kilauea to Kau. Pele’s hair is formed by gas during a volcanic eruption. When bubbles of gas near the surface of a lava flow burst, it can ...

More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...

Pyroclastic flow is the plume of hot gas and lava fragments coughed out by the volcano after the initial burst of ash. The temperatures of the pyroclastic current, while boiling, did not top 465 ...

Mt. Mihara is an active volcano on a nearby island with a fascinating history, superb seafood, hot spring baths, and ...

Mount Spurr has two vents, or openings, in the Earth's crust from which lava, volcanic gas and other ... for about an hour, sending a plume of ash 30,000 feet into the air, USA TODAY previously ...

Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...

“No lava reached Pompeii ... At noon on Day 1, Vesuvius began to eject a plume of rocky volcanic fragments and gas into the air, known as an eruption column. The mushroom cloud that Pliny ...