Scientists from Mexico's National Autonomous University have created the first three-dimensional image of the Popocatépetl ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

What is the risk of a volcano erupting? To answer this question, scientists need information about its underlying internal structure. However, gathering this data can take several years of fieldwork, ...

Lava is molten rock from a volcano that reaches the Earth’s surface. Liquid rock below the Earth’s surface is referred to as magma. More than 50% of the world’s active volcanoes above sea level ...

Rachel Beane receives funding from Bowdoin College and the National Science Foundation. She is affiliated with the Harpswell Heritage Land Trust. On Nov. 27, 2022, Mauna Loa – the world’s largest ...

Lava flows create a map-like pattern on black basalt rocks at Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano, which erupted in March 2021 for the first time in nearly 800 years. On June 2, 2025, Italy’s Mount Etna, ...

Smoke billows from the mouth of Mt. Shasta like a thunderous cough. Within moments, clear skies turn gray, and the sun vanishes behind thick, shifting layers of volcanic gas and ash. Visitors snap ...

Few places on Earth demonstrate the raw power of geological activity like volcanoes. The dynamic processes beneath our planet's crust are the reasons behind (or rather, under) events like the July ...