Mount Everest is indeed the world's highest mountain, with its peak standing at 8,849m (that's 8.8km) above the ocean.

Researchers used lightning and solar storms to map magma, revealing isolated pockets as opposed to one bubble ready to burst.

Kilauea’s summit was inflating Friday, indicating that magma was accumulating, according to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory ...

An undersea volcano off the Oregon coast will likely erupt in 2025, and scientists can use the lessons learned from ...

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported today that Kilauea’s summit area is slowly inflating, indicating that new magma is ...

A detailed look at Yellowstone's magma storage system finds that only one region is likely to host liquid magma in the long ...

While SO2 concentrations in Hilo appeared to diminish throughout Monday, East Hawaii could experience more vog through today and Wednesday. National Weather Service meteorologist Thomas Vaughan said ...

It's only the first week of 2025, and two volcanoes have already been making headlines over the possibility of both erupting ...

Stunning timelapse footage shows the Kilauea volcano spitting lava in Hawaii. The video showing molten rocks spewing out from the crater was captured from the northwest rim of the Halema'uma'u crater ...

Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by US Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. Note: The summit eruption of Kl ...

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports that activity stopped at about 8:40 p.m. Friday, putting the eruption that started during the early morning of Dec. 23 on pause for a third time. There is no lava ...