Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active since 1994, spewing plumes of smoke, gas and ash more or less daily. The ...

Beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean, about 470 kilometers off the coast of Oregon, lies Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano at the cutting edge of scientific exploration. Decades of monitoring have ...

One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its eruption with a trickle, not a blast. Mount St. Helens' gas-laden magma oozed into the cone before the mountain finally erupted in 1980.