These ghostly hoops have been spotted above volcanic events around the world. But how they form has long been a mystery.

Several explosions inside of Italy's Stromboli volcano sent enormous plumes of smoke into the sky and major streams of lava into the Tyrrhenian Sea over the weekend. Lava oozed from the northern ...

Groups of tourists had to seek safety on Monday, when Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest active volcano erupted. The volcano is located on the Italian island of Sicily and is a popular tourist ...

Molten lava forcefully erupted from the Voragine volcanic crater on the majestic Mount Etna along the east coast of Sicily, Italy, on Thursday. After three weeks of steadily intensifying volcanic ...

In Italy, the Colli Albani experienced major eruptions thousands of years ago that current models did not predict. Using 3D imaging, a team from UNIGE explains this phenomenon and paves the way for ...

Campi Flegrei has been in a “restless” period for about 70 years. The scientists say this modeling is the first of its kind in an attempt to forecast the rupture of an active volcano. Campi Flegrei, ...

Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission passed above the volcano shortly after the eruption started. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A volcanologist answers your questions about glass-shard hairballs, cooking breakfast over lava, Gollum's end on Mount Doom, ...

June 9 (UPI) --The Campi Flegrei volcano in southern Italy is at risk of erupting, researchers at Italy's National Research Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology and University College London said ...

ROME -- A giant explosion from an Italian volcano sent locals and tourists running for cover on Wednesday. Stromboli, a volcano located on a small island off the coast of Sicily, erupted, sending a ...