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

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

Greek prime minister announces £2.5m emergency evacuation fund as experts warn another major eruption could be on its way ...

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...

An eruption of Mount Churchill today similar to previous major plumes would bring much of the Northern Hemisphere to a ...

A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

Geologists visited the Kilauea volcano crater in Hawaii to collect lava samples. Officials from the United States Geological ...

A crumb of bread entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered among a collection ...

Kanlaon Volcano has recorded 23 volcanic earthquakes in the past 24 hours, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and ...

Houston Rockets guard Dillon Brooks is renowned as one of the NBA’s best defenders and leading trash talkers. The latter didn ...

JOHANNESBURG: Heated exchanges between South Africa and the United States this week are an eruption of tensions over several ...