"We also got some great close-ups and other data on a 200-kilometer-long lava lake called Loki Patera. There is amazing detail showing these crazy islands embedded in the middle of a potential ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa; it's ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

Incredible footage of the Kilauea Volcano shows lava shooting over 600 feet into the air earlier this week on Tuesday evening ...

Tephra includes large, dense chunks, light rock debris, and ash. The restless lava lake in Nyiragongo's summit crater regularly causes eruptions of gas and smoke laden with tephra. Lava is the ...

The Nyiragongo volcano saw its last major eruption in 2002. When it's not erupting, it's home to the world's largest lava lake. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science The Nyiragongo ...

NASA confirmed that a chunk of debris that crashed into a Florida home came from a battery pallet ejected from the ISS, and archaeologists found evidence that humans used a lava tube as a shelter ...

The 990m-high strato-volcano's setting makes it extremely difficult to climb. Pictures taken from space are really the only way of looking inside Saunders Island is part of the South Georgia and ...

HONOLULU — One of the world's most active volcanoes began shooting lava into the air once again this week on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea volcano has been erupting on and off for nearly two ...