Phivolcs still prohibits flights within the vicinity of the volcano. It warns of possible hazards such as sudden explosive eruption, lava flow, ash fall, rockfall, lahar during heavy rains and ...

“The pressure inside the volcano is building,” Chadwick said. “Eventually, it becomes too great and a crack opens up and lava spews out of the fissure.” On land, this is sometimes called a ...

A defensive dome for the US – a country hundreds of times the size of Israel – would require massive scale, as well as space-based interceptors, and almost certainly be decades away.

The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks. The eruption that began Dec. 23 in a crater at Kilauea’s summit ...