The Sakurajima volcano erupted, sending ash clouds over towns in Japan on January 19. Dramatic timelapse footage shows the ...

Note: no sound] Sakurajima volcano in Japan has erupted explosively, sending a plume of ash 2000 meters above the crater.

A climatic mystery about a year that gave summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Japan is crisscrossed with 111 active volcanoes. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is responsible for monitoring volcanic activity and providing related disaster preparedness information.

In January 2022, the undersea volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted spectacularly, becoming one of the most powerful volcanic events of the century. It sent a plume 50 kilometers high, impacting ...

SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan issued a tsunami advisory on Monday after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the southwest of the country.

The location of a giant volcanic eruption in 1831 has eluded scientists for nearly 200 years, but now they have solved the ...

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has hit southwestern Japan, the country's Meteorological Agency said ...

But the Japan Coast Guard said it may have cracked the mystery. The JCG announced that it found the most likely culprit as it located an underwater volcanic crater believed to have erupted within ...