Satellites soaring high above Earth have revealed exactly how wispy clouds are created by the giant plumes of ash belched upwards in a volcanic eruption. Volcanoes play a vital role in the cycles ...

ADIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A volcano in Ethiopia has erupted for the first known time in 10,000 years, spewing plumes of thick smoke and ash high into the sky and impacting air travel thousands of miles ...

An unusual volcanic rain trigger. A 2024 eruption at Iceland’s Sundhnúksgígar volcano caused an unpredicted rainstorm, but researchers weren’t sure how. Rather than the normal mechanisms for volcanic ...

MOUNT ST HELENS (KPTV) - Strong winds on Tuesday were spreading large amounts of dust and ash at Mount St. Helens, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS camera that points at the volcano ...

The warmest parts of Mars host a strange, thick layer of ice beneath the surface, and we may have finally figured out how it got there. It might have been shifted from the inside of the planet by ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation of the Black Death in Europe. Atmospheric dust ...