IF you want a taste of Central America without the long-haul flight, then there is somewhere a bit closer to home that is ...

Understanding what triggers large volcanic eruptions is crucial for hazard assessment, but the exact mechanism driving these eruptions is still poorly understood. The prevailing theory is that ...

The Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface — a long-standing mystery in solar science. A new study 1 suggests that the answer may lie in countless tiny eruptions happening all the time ...

Researchers have uncovered that Poás volcano has shifted from rare, high-magnitude eruptions to frequent, smaller explosions over the past 5,000 years. That change reshapes modern risk, because even ...

We know very little about the processes that lead to a reeruption of supervolcanoes such as the mostly underwater Kikai caldera in Japan (pictured) and are therefore ill-equipped to make predictions.

Researchers have found that early humans survived one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history by rapidly shifting their diet toward river-based food sources. That response reveals how ...

A new detection method called “Jerk” could dramatically improve how scientists forecast volcanic eruptions. By using a single broadband seismometer, the system can detect extremely subtle ground ...

Screengrab from a footage released by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology showing thick plumes from the summit crater of Kanlaon Volcano during its brief explosive eruption on ...