Scientists have built the most detailed map volcanoes on Venus, which is also the most complete volcano map of all planets in the solar system. The map reveals the locations and sizes of all 85,000 ...

Busy day for me today, but I wanted to point everyone to a great new gallery put together by Betsy Mason here at Wired Science. It contains 11 stunning geologic maps of volcanoes from another the ...

Google Maps is like our digital third eye, allowing us to see practically every swath of the Earth's surface. Now the mapping tool can take us underground, into the fiery depths of a volcano. As of ...

Activity from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii has finally slowed down after months of high levels of activity rattled the lives of everyone on the island. While the volcano was at its most active, it ...

The production of maps to track the progress of ongoing eruptions has long been part of the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory mission to inform the public about volcanic hazards in Hawaii. The methods ...

An elaborate 2,000-year-old "volcano map" has been discovered carved into a large volcanic rock in Mexico. Experts from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) recently analyzed ...

"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their ...

Ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland continues to ground flights across Europe. Indeed, I’m hosting a friend from Britain who can’t get home due to the volcanic ash crisis. This is an ...

Satellite images have captured a rare volcanic eruption that occurred Sunday at Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano, sending ...

Volcanic eruptions remain a very real danger to life on Earth due to their apocalyptic power and our inability to accurately predict when they will occur. Yet despite their ever-ominous threat, human ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has witnessed for the first time in recorded history the eruption of long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano, ...