Kilauea, the restless shield volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been erupting in dramatic, repeating bursts since late 2024, with lava fountains and volcanic gas-and-ash plumes rising high above the ...

The Sun fired off six X-class flares in the first four days of February 2026, a burst of extreme activity spanning roughly 400,000 miles of the solar disk. That stretch covers nearly half the Sun’s ...