Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Tuesday in a nine-hour spectacular, shooting fountains of lava some 1,300 feet into the air, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...

Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano was putting on a spectacular show Tuesday evening, with its latest eruptive episode producing arching bands of red lava higher than some skyscrapers ...

Currently, scientists struggle to forecast volcano eruption events, as no universally reliable, real-time eruption forecasting framework is available. Instead, researchers often rely on retrospective ...

One of the most deadly and dangerous volcano hazards isn’t lava. Mudflows called lahars can come without clear warning.