Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From lava fountains to towering ash clouds, volcanoes produce some of the most dramatic ...

Some scientists think we can better understand volcanoes by learning how the gaseous vortexes emerge. By Carolyn Wilke Some volcanoes perform a rather subtle trick: blowing rings of vapor that waft ...

Q How do volcanoes form, and how did the volcano of Pompeii show up? — Andrew Vigliotta, Mount Horeb, Wis. A Clifford Thurber, professor of geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Some ...

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam. In the following weeks, water, boiling-hot ...

UC Berkeley researchers discovered previously unknown zones of slow seismic waves, which may help determine the process of the formation of hotspot volcanoes. Taking seismic wave data from multiple ...

Pulvirenti’s model explains why smoke rings aren’t seen at every volcano all the time, since the rings require such precise conditions to form. Even when these conditions are met, however, smoke rings ...

Volcanic eruptions are perhaps nature's most terrifying display of power. Catastrophic eruptions of volcanoes like Mount Vesuvius, Krakatoa, and Mount St. Helens have gone down as some of the most ...

A trio of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Université de Lyon, and Arizona State University, respectively, has found that a likely reason flat pancake-like volcanoes form on Venus' ...

MICHIGAN – Ice volcanoes. Yes, they are a thing. While they don’t spew lava like the volcanoes often making news headlines, this winter phenomena is quite literally a cool sight to see. Along the ...

March 29 (UPI) --A merger of many ice volcanoes form Pluto's two mane mountains, a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications reveals -- and what they've found suggests the planet is an ocean ...