See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to ...

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. A webcam on Tuesday shows vigorous streams of red ...

It's not every day you have a massive Oregon volcano ready to blow, and experts are looking forward to seeing it erupt in all ...

When temperatures drop, 'ice volcanoes' rise. That's what's happening right now across upstate New York, and one of the most well-known formations that appears during cold winters is in Letchworth ...

The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, is displaying behavior that ...

Scientists have assessed Yellowstone's chances of eruption by measuring electronic currents flowing deep within the Earth ...

An increase in seismic activity has prompted predictions that a mile-wide submarine volcano named the Axial Seamount will ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, though?