After lying dormant for decades, Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano suddenly erupted on June 4 and has since hurled a tremendous cloud of ash, as well as plumes of sulfur dioxide into the air. This ...

New Horizons captured this unique view of Jupiter’s moon Io with its color camera – the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) – at 00:25 UT on March 1, 2007, from a range of 2.3 million ...

The eruption of Krakatoa on August 26–27, 1883, completely collapsed its Indonesian island, blasting the stratosphere with volcanic dust and sulphur dioxide. A catastrophe of incredible scale for ...

A lake that started mysteriously growing atop Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is puzzling scientists yet again, by exhibiting rapidly changing “dynamic colors and patterns” ... and even signs of movement.

Airlines flying North Pacific routes between Asia and North America are still contending with a volcanic hazard in Alaska’s ...