The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to ...

It's not every day you have a massive Oregon volcano ready to blow, and experts are looking forward to seeing it erupt in all ...

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

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

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, is displaying behavior that ...

An increase in seismic activity has prompted predictions that a mile-wide submarine volcano named the Axial Seamount will ...

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

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 ...

The Greek island of Santorini has captured global attention, having been shaken by a severe series of earthquakes since last ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, ...