Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

The magma system beneath volcanoes may persist even after recent eruptions, a new study finds.

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists believe it’s only a matter of time before it erupts again – maybe even before ...

The history of the island, from the most powerful volcanic eruption ever experienced by the world to the devastating 7.8 ...

For decades, scientists believed that magma chambers beneath volcanoes were transient, forming before an eruption and then ...

Cornell University scientists studying six North American volcanoes within the Cascade Range found something totally unexpected underneath.

Lava flows from Episode 6, the latest eruptive event of the summit eruption that started at 11:28 p.m. Jan. 24 and ended at ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

In a 1951 paper titled “Exchange of function as a cause of geyser irregularity [Wyoming]” Marler documented geyser eruptions ...

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic ... After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously preserved in a protective shell of ash ...

“The stone plaques engraved with sun and plant motifs were produced and deposited at Vasagård during ... a volcano erupted to see if the stones were sacrificed before or after the eruption ...

Sakurajima is one of Japan's most active volcanoes, with a history of frequent eruptions. Originally an island, it became a peninsula after a significant ... Lived On Earth Before Humans Every ...