A rare “volnado” spins beside an erupting volcano at Kīlauea’s summit, capturing a wild and surreal natural moment on video ...

Kilauea’s eruption led to a rare event, creating a vortex that sent rocks, dust, and ash flying. The volcano remains one of ...

When lava shot into the air at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, the fountaining set a new record for the volcano which has been ...

Livestream footage of the Kilauea volcanic eruption caught the moment a whirlwind impacted one of the cameras placed on the ...

What happens when a tornado forms near an erupting volcano? It's being called a "volnado." 🌪️🌋 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

A volcano that erupted after being asleep for more than 100,000 years is leading more volcanologists to say we must redefine ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...