An active underwater volcano 300 miles off the Oregon Coast that was predicted to erupt in 2025 is now expected to erupt ...

Discover why volcanoes erupt, how magma and gases cause eruptions and why volcanoes are essential for life on Earth.

For decades, volcanologists believed that the primary trigger for explosive eruptions was a drop ...

Volcanoes are often framed as nature’s most violent spectacles, yet some of the largest on Earth ooze lava quietly for years ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...