The Hunga Tonga volcano eruption was one of the most powerful volcanic events in recent history, and it completely destroyed both the volcano itself and the island it once formed. This video provides ...

This stunning aerial shot highlights the "looming threat" of a volcanic island in Tonga, which could violently explode in the future. The island also has a colorful origin story in Tongan mythology, ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand and Australia have sent military surveillance flights to assess the damage in Tonga caused by Saturday's huge undersea volcanic eruption. Communications with the ...

A tsunami triggered by a volcanic eruption decimated some islands of the South Pacific nation of Tonga. The crushing effect on land and infrastructure can be seen from outer space. Three of Tonga’s ...

Since 2022, the underwater volcano of Home Reef has repeatedly emerged, adding hectares of land to the Tonga archipelago. Successive eruptions have allowed the island to reach an area of 12.2 hectares ...

A volcanic eruption in the South Pacific was so powerful that its shockwaves left the planet and reached space, new research shows. The 2022 underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, one of the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The tsunami threat around the Pacific from a huge undersea volcanic eruption has begun to recede, while the extent of damage to Tonga remains unclear. The eruption on ...

Volcanoes erupting underwater have a distinctive effect on the climate that is larger and more widespread than previously thought, according to an international group led by University of Auckland and ...