A volcano that has been silent since about 1550 began erupting after a big quake. A radar satellite recorded its lava spreading, twice every 12 days.

A blazing streak of light tore across the night sky above Albay province in the Philippines and appeared to slam directly into the flanks of Mayon volcano while government monitoring cameras were ...

I filmed this surreal night from my spot by the campfire, with crackling logs at my feet and a volcano erupting in the ...

A new satellite image has captured a rare view of an erupting volcano, revealing its bright red lava flow as seen from space. Mayon began erupting in January 2026 when clouds of hot ash and flows of ...

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 ...

Learn how stress inside a volcano can make gas bubbles form early, helping explain why some eruptions stay quiet instead of exploding. One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its ...

"There are injured, burned and dead people," says National Disaster Coordinator Sergio Cabanas, adding, an undetermined ...

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 ...

Nearly 600 years ago, a massive volcanic eruption sent clouds of sulfurous gas and ash high into the atmosphere. The blast known as the 1458/59 CE event was so huge that it triggered decades of ...

Timelapse video has shown a volcano in the Icelandic town of Grindavik erupting against the backdrop of the Northern Lights.

Five journalists and two unidentified people are missing near the Anak Krakatau volcano currently erupting in Indonesia, ...