One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its eruption with a trickle, not a blast. Mount St. Helens' gas-laden magma oozed into the cone before the mountain finally erupted in 1980.

Footage captured a July 30 phreatomagmatic eruption at the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, launching ash 1,476 feet into the ...

Volcanologist Martin Mangler explains how volcanic eruptions work to push lava into the air. Listen on the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.

Stunning new footage shows a bright-green "fireball" meteor exploding in the skies over an erupting volcano in the Philippines. Initial reports suggested that the falling space rock may have struck ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano shot out lava for the 49th time that we know of.

Live camera captures Kīlauea volcano erupting in Hawaii Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano began erupting Tuesday morning. According to the US Geological Survey, this is Kilauea's 43rd episode of lava ...

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 ...

Not all volcanoes erupt with lava — on a Lake Michigan Beach in Saugatuck, Michigan, some amazing “ice volcanoes” erupted on Feb. 16. This amazing phenomenon happens when building waves of water are ...

Planet Earth Volcanoes Some 'extinct' volcanoes may just be going through a growth spurt, before they 'wake up in this catastrophic stage,' emerging research suggests A volcano that erupted after ...

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