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

Volcanoes are a powerful force of nature. There are about 1500 active volcanoes on our planet right now. A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows lava and other volcanic matter to ...

Lava flows from a fissure in the aftermath of eruptions from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, May 22, 2018. Andrew Richard Hara/Ena Media Hawaii via Getty Images But not all lavas are the ...

A long dormant volcano has just erupted for the first time in recorded history. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia's Afar ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano, long thought to be dormant, sent ash nine miles into the sky in an eruption on Sunday ...

Volcanoes are famous for their explosive energy and the hot lava that bubbles and oozes out. They can be extremely destructive but are also beautiful forces of nature. In one country, Iceland, there ...