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

The inside of a charred scroll has been deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried during a huge ...

It's the seventh eruption since just before Christmas at one of the world's most active volcanoes, with lava shooting ...

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

Renowned seismologist Costas Synolakis claimed that the earthquakes rattling Santorini may indicate the birth of a new ...

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

Iceland has seen some major volcanic activity in the last couple of years. Travel expert Rick Steves has some advice for ...

A new volcanic hotspot on Jupiter’s moon Io has been detected, releasing six times Earth’s total energy output.

Letchworth isn’t the only place to witness this rare winter phenomenon. Along the frozen shores of Lake Ontario, water pushes ...

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

Scientists and NASA have warned that a potential eruption of Italy’s mount Vesuvius may be a reality, with 3 million Italians ...