Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

As residents flee the Greek Island of Santorini after a spate of tremors earlier this month, we look back at a catastrophic ...

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to ...

The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

M. PATRICK / U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Lava spewed out of the northern vent at Kilauea’s summit Tuesday morning. M. PATRICK / ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. A webcam on Tuesday shows vigorous streams of red ...

An increase in seismic activity has prompted predictions that a mile-wide submarine volcano named the Axial Seamount will ...

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...

The Greek island of Santorini has captured global attention, having been shaken by a severe series of earthquakes since last ...