COURTESY USGS View of the Halemaumau crater within Kaluapele from the south rim of the crater. 2 /2 COURTESY USGS View of the Halemaumau crater within Kaluapele from the south rim of the crater.

The Kīlauea summit has inflated by 23 microradians since the end of Episode 39 on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2025, including an ...

Kīlauea summit region shook for 5 hours Nov. 14 that year as magma made a path to the surface. The eruption began at 8:08 p.m ...

A series of lava fountains building -a cone perched on the crater rim … sounds like the ongoing eruption in Halema‘uma‘u at ...

It’s been nearly eight years since the lava flow from the 2018 Kīlauea eruption decimated parts of the Puna community, ...

Since December 23, 2024, the north and south vents within Halemaʻumaʻu crater, within Kaluapele (the summit caldera), have ...

When comedian Ben Miller applied to become an artist-in-residence at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, he was shocked when he ...

Let’s image the simplest, most boring volcano possible. It consists of a magma balloon fed by a straw. The ground is perfectly flat above the balloon. Magma comes up the straw at a constant ...

Happy New Year! Today, as we usher in 2026, we bid aloha to 2025 and take a look back at the Top 10 stories of the year, as ...

Kīlauea has been erupting episodically since Dec. 23, 2024, primarily from two vents (north and south) in Halema‘uma‘u.

Massive continents collide, the Earth’s crust crumbles and is pulled back into the mantle, melts down into magma, and is ...

After the smoke cleared from ringing in the new year, the shocking news emerged that one celebration had turned deadly when a ...