What do volcanic plumes look like from space?

The eruption shot huge clouds of ash nearly 45,000 feet into the sky over the Afar region in northeast Ethiopia.

When a volcano that has slept for centuries suddenly roars back to life, the first clear view no longer comes from a ship or a nearby village, but from orbit. Earlier this year, a NASA satellite ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northeast Ethiopia, believed to have been dormant for up to 12,000 years, erupted on 23 November ...

A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted for the first time in 12,000 years on Sunday, November 23, sending a plume of ash nine ...

A NASA satellite image shows a volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that has awoken after more than 400 years of slumber.

The Meteorological Department said volcanic ash clouds cleared India by 10:30 pm on Tuesday. The eruption subsided by ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northeastern Ethiopia erupted for the first time in roughly 10,000 years.

Located near the equator in central Africa, the Nyamuragira and Nyiragongo volcanoes are often obscured from satellite view by clouds. But on February 9, 2015, clear skies afforded an unobstructed ...

New details about the underwater volcano eruption that devastated Tonga in January 2022 continue to emerge. And the latest findings show that it was such a massive eruption that it had an impact all ...