Think Hawaii is all about beaches and luaus? Think again. Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, is a fiery beast that covers more than half of the Big Island — and it's still very much ...

Kilauea volcano began shooting lava into the air once again Tuesday on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea, one of the world's ...

From a car dwarfed between two trucks to a volcano that has erupted for an eighth time, here's what caught Suzanne Le Mignot and Ed Curran's eye this week.

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts spewing glowing lava Lava flow activity intensifies on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano following ...

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 ...

Europe’s tallest volcano, Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, began erupting on Tuesday in an impressive lava flow emerging ...

The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing to NASA scientists intent on learning more about the innermost and third-largest ... volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in ...

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

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced thousands of earthquakes this month while researchers have ...

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two ...