Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

Scientists have shed light on a thermal process in magma that may help explain why similar volcanic systems can produce very ...

Volcanologists discovered that really hot magma, oddly, won’t start cooling into rock until it reaches lower-than-normal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st display of molten ...

(WJW) — You don’t see this every day. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shared a video Tuesday showing what they described as a “volnado” forming near an erupting fountain of lava in Hawaii. “We know ...

The South Pacific blast may have consumed its own methane — but using this idea against the greenhouse gas is controversial.

Native 'ohi'a lehua trees can briefly close tiny pores in their leaves to limit how much sulfur dioxide gas gets inside when ...