What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...

Take a road trip through Nevada to this moon-like crater used by NASA astronauts as a training ground to prepare them for the ...

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

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, ...

A fountain of lava was spewing from a Hawaii volcano Tuesday in the latest episode of an eruption that has paused and resumed ...

The international research team is in Santorini participating in the oceanographic mission MSM132, which aims to explore the ...

Mauna Kea When you think of the tallest mountains, instinctively, Mount Everest comes to mind. But here's a shocker: Mauna ...

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spearheads Volcano Awareness Month each January on the Island of Hawaii. This year, in ...

“Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory ...

Songs & Stories of Waikīkī - Aloha Authentic Episode 504 with Kamaka Pili Kīlauea volcano erupted once again Monday night, ...

Yet recently the frequency of smaller eruptions venting steam and ash had begun to increase. Soon the sides of the volcano turned barren and rocky as red-hot ash and balls of scalding pumice ...

Many are familiar with the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii. But centuries earlier, Vesuvius also sent ...