The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted for the second time in 2 days, triggering a tsunami that hit the South Pacific ...

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga erupted on Jan. 13, 2022. NOAA’s GOES West and ...

"According to tradition, on 24 August in the year 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted in one of history's most famous natural disasters, burying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Satellites can now detect one of the first signs that a volcano is about to erupt. | Credit: Gani ...

Space robotics experts have created a team of intelligent robots that can be lofted to Mars to map lava tubes that could provide havens for the first human explorers.

The Windward Planning Commission on Hawaii Island on Thursday will consider a proposal to expand the Seaview Performing Arts ...

Lava flows from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano can be seen from space, according to imagery from two different space agencies. The European Space Agency released a photograph from its Sentinel-2 satellite ...

Dick Fiske, who died on June 18 as he neared his 93rd birthday, was one of the most original thinkers ever at the USGS ...

A global early-warning system strives to keep aircraft safe from volcanic eruptions. Mark Piesing A small aircraft flies over the Bardarbunga volcano as it spews lava and ash in southeast Iceland. The ...

When a town in Hawaii was threatened by lava in 1935, a group of airplanes tried to redirect the flow. Mark Strauss A bomb detonates on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano, near the 8,500-foot-elevation source ...