A truly remarkable quirk of the natural world - this volcano lights up the night sky in an iridescent blue when its sulphuric ...

Semeru has been showing heightened volcanic activity since November of last year. The 3,676-meter-high volcano erupted 475 ...

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

Yellowstone Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why — the dynamic landscape contains a ...

Volcano scientists from around the world will gather from Feb. 9-14 in Hilo for the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Caldera-forming Eruptions at Basaltic Volcanoes: Insights and ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

The lunar heart, created by the interplay of light and shadow, is visible once a month, just before our satellite reaches ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

A volcano in Hawaii that’s been erupting since December displayed a message of love in glowing lava a little more than a week ...

With a record 76,000 votes, these are the winner and highly commanded images chosen by wildlife photography and nature fans ...

By Dean Murray A Hawaiian volcano looks like a scene from "The Lord of the Rings" as it spews lava this week. A United States Geological Survey (USGS) live camera ...