The ground is still hot atop the crater of Paricutin, the first volcano of its kind to have its life cycle recorded by modern science after its 1943 eruption.

The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only volcano in the range.

Composite volcanoes are the most common type of volcano. They can have violent eruptions and can grow bigger as layers of thick lava and ash harden on top of each other. Mount Etna in Sicily ...

The magma that erupts from basaltic volcanoes in the middle of tectonic plates originates from within Earth's mantle — rather than from the outer crust — and is propelled upward by CO2, not water.

It contains dissolved gasses, and when the pressure reaches a certain point and the gasses expand, there is an explosion at the mouth of a volcano. Once it reaches the surface and is expelled from the ...

Etna is famous for producing lava fountains that have reached over 3,000 feet above the volcano. That isn’t even the record for lava fountains. The 1986 eruption of Izu-Oshima in southern Japan ...

The park’s famous volcanoes draw more than a million visitors each year, making it one of America’s more popular national parks. But even when Kilauea and Mauna Loa aren’t erupting, there ...

Uturuncu, a Bolivian ‘zombie volcano’ that hasn’t erupted in more than 250,000 years, has shown signs of life. But scientists don’t think those signs spell trouble.

The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only volcano in the range.

Uturuncu, a Bolivian ‘zombie volcano’ that hasn’t erupted in more than 250,000 years, has shown signs of life. But scientists don’t think those signs spell trouble.