Beneath Yellowstone National Park rests one of the planet's most extensive volcanic systems — a supervolcano that experts ...

Kilauea, located on Hawaii's Big Island, is showing signs of imminent activity, according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory ...

Around 74,000 years ago, Earth experienced one of the most devastating volcanic events in its recent history. The Toba supereruption, centered in what is now Indonesia, blasted 672 cubic miles of ...

Social media videos are stoking fears about a catastrophic eruption in central Oregon, but the science tells a different story.

This situation is heating up. One of the world’s most volatile volcanoes is silently refilling with molten rock, sparking fears that this caldera could be getting ready to unleash a torrent of lava, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kikai Caldera. (Seama Nobukazu/CC BY 4.0) About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what remains ...

Will Yellowstone erupt or are we blowing things out of proportion? We may have underestimated Yellowstone's potential to blow its stack in the future. Chinese scientists have made a disconcerting find ...

Caldera formation arises when large volumes of magma are evacuated from a sub-surface reservoir, leading to gravitational collapse of the overlying rock into the evacuated space. The process begins ...

From the sky, Aogashima looks almost impossible. A giant volcanic crater rises from the Pacific Ocean, and inside that crater ...