Tephra is fragmented volcanic material — including ash, rock and strands of volcanic glass — blasted into the air during an ...

The lava that began spewing from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano earlier this month is no longer a threat to the public, but officials are now warning that the volcanic smog it’s emitting could include ...

When volcanic debris starts behaving like weather, a landscape can change in a single morning. At Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Kīlauea’s latest summit episode left overlooks, roadside edges, ...

Kilauea eruption episode 43 has begun, according to Hawaii County Civil Defense. Halema‘uma‘u is fountaining and creating tephra, which is falling in and around Volcanoes National Park, which has been ...

The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that occurred almost 500 years ago has (in part) been solved thanks to glass shards preserved in the ice covering Antarctica. In 1458 a volcano ...

Kilauea volcano, the home of Pele, Hawaii's volcano goddess, is erupting. The U.S. Geological Survey announced that the volcano started its eruption on Wednesday, just hours after an eruption watch ...

Kilauea's 43rd eruption began Tuesday morning, with the USGS warning that tephra fall could affect areas north and east of the vents if fountaining coincides with an anticipated storm.

Kilauea volcano erupted Tuesday on Hawaii's Big Island, shooting lava fountains up to 1,000 feet high and sending ash and volcanic debris across nearby communities.