A 9-mile sheet of molten rock tunneling toward the surface of a peninsula in southwestern Iceland has set off thousands of earthquakes and raised concerns that a volcanic eruption is imminent. This ...

The ash plume from the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption. To say that the Eyjafjallajökull eruption has become the most significant volcano-related news story of the year would be an understatement.

A peek into the roots of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland earlier this year that disrupted flights across Europe could shed light on the mysterious behavior of volcanoes that ...

In the spring of 2010, Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano kaboomed, sending a cloud of ash into European airspace. The resulting disruption in air travel (ash + engines = bad) was the largest on the ...

Nothing is more terrifying than a huge volcanic eruption filling the sky. Here are the top ten biggest volcanic events ever ...

ESA’s small Proba-1 Earth-watcher has pinpointed the source of the ash that recently paralysed Europe, peering in high resolution from 600 km up at the volcano smouldering through Iceland’s ...

The Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland is spewing ash into the stratosphere – it's a bigger eruption than Eyjafjallajökull but the threat to flights is lower YET another volcano blew its top in Iceland on ...

This is an artist's conception illustrating the 3-D geometry (left) and timing of events (right column) at Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The complicated "plumbing" inside the volcano consists ...

The big news from Iceland: Eyjafjallajökull may be shifting from a Surtseyan eruption to a more Strombolian mode. This is a good thing. As if the volcano itself wasn’t enough of a phonetic nightmare, ...