Some scientists think we can better understand volcanoes by learning how the gaseous vortexes emerge.

This video captured the swirling wind vortexes that formed on the very first day of the eruption at Halemaʻumaʻu Crater on ...

Discover interesting facts about volcanoes, including why and where they form and history's deadliest eruption.

Super-volcanoes have probably caused more extinctions than asteroids. Vanderbilt University researchers say such volcanoes could form fairly quickly, in a few hundred years, and erupt without notice.

Mud volcanoes form when a combination of mud, fluids, and gases erupt at the Earth’s surface.

Something unusual was spotted swirling within the crater of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano during the most recent eruptive episode ...

An eruption has started at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the world. AP ...

Hawaii Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts, lava fountains form in park Officials confirmed Wednesday that an eruption has begun in Kilauea volcano’s Halemaumau crater at the volcano’s summit ...