Kīlauea is putting on a show once again. Episode 28 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 4:10 a.m., and is currently ...

Episode 28 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 4:10 a.m. on July 9 and is currently exhibiting a vent overflow and ...

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

LAVA HOT SPRINGS — The hottest concert series in Lava is set to return for its second season of music, fun and family-friendly entertainment.

There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that we could use to precisely date the activity of another planet's volcano for ...

Led by Dr. Kenneth Sims, a noted geologist at the University of Wyoming and a member of the USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, the research team discovered that mafic volcanism—characterized by ...

Analysing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in the Earth's crust in Turkey has brought new insights into how continents move over time, improving our ...

A mafic volcanic eruption is one characterized by lava flows low in silica and high in iron and magnesium. Rhyolitic lava flows are viscous in nature and form lava domes that are thick and blocky.

When people think of volcanoes, they don’t typically think of Michigan. But volcanic activity was the driving force behind some of Michigan’s key resources and landmarks.

SP Crater (right foreground), like many volcanoes in Arizona’s San Francisco volcanic field, erupted mafic lava that lacks sanidine crystals. Scientists dated this eruption at approximately ...

Iceland Battles A Lava Flow, But It’s Hard to Stop Molten Rock Countries have built barriers and tried explosives in the past. Learn how Iceland is handling the recent volcano eruption.

Iceland, Hawaii and Italy have all tried to control lava to save cities in the past. A volcanologist explains the methods.