This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

Archaeologists in Italy found footprints of Pompeii inhabitants, revealing a dramatic flight from a bronze age Mount Vesuvius ...

Researchers have revisited Ciampate del Diavolo, the so-called "Devil's Trails" from 350,000 years ago in southern Italy.

After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in ...

Italy, renowned for its culture, cuisine, and stunning landscapes, is also home to some of Europe's most active and potentially dangerous volcanoes. Situated on the boundary of two tectonic plates ...

Mount Etna loomed large over everything as we arrived in eastern Sicily that early January. From miles away, I could see the ...

The volcano sees persistent low-level explosions, called Strombolian, which tend to occur every 10 to 20 minutes and are seen ...

Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, is an example of a composite volcano. Shield volcanoes do not have such violent eruptions. These volcanoes tend to have gentle slopes and their runnier lava spreads ...

Comedian Dara Ó Briain is fronting Volcano with Dara Ó Briain (w/t) for Channel 5 co-produced by BBC Studios Science Unit and ...

An unusual discovery was made in Pompeii (Italy), which had been buried under volcanic ash for nearly two thousand years, ...

Cascades of lava flowed from one of Mount Etna’s largest craters for the first time in four years. It is Europe’s tallest active volcano. Photo: Etna Walk/Giuseppe di Stefano/Reuters ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.