This stunning astronaut photo shows the natural beauty of Japan's Aso Caldera — a giant crater-like bowl containing 17 different volcanoes, leftover from major eruptions spanning over 200,000 years.

Population models suggest the Kikai-Akahoya eruption brought severe regional decline alongside continued growth on some ...

The park was founded in 1916, and today more than 1.5 million tourists arrive each year to check out two of the most active volcanoes on Earth (Kīlauea has been continuously erupting since 1983!) ...

We know very little about the processes that lead to a reeruption of supervolcanoes such as the mostly underwater Kikai caldera in Japan (pictured) and are therefore ill-equipped to make predictions.

Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that volcanic debris posed the major threat, yet many of the victims died from a ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...

Soar over Nuku Hiva, the largest island of the remote Marquesas archipelago in French Polynesia, where untamed, ...

Sulfur dioxide escaping from Masaya already presents a hazard, with persistent emissions often reaching dangerously high ...

It’s Dante’s Peak. A volatile volcano in Nicaragua is refilling with magma, sparking fears of a cataclysmic event that could affect the nearby population center, per a study in Geophysical Research ...

Caldera-forming eruptions are among the most hazardous volcanic processes, particularly submarine ones. Yet, the dynamics of submarine caldera-forming eruptions and ...

Visitors heading to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park may need to change plans for exploring one of its most dramatic ...

A recent study sheds light on how magma moves beneath Nicaragua's most active volcano, located in the vicinity of some 2 ...