The water system at Lava Lake and Little Lava Lake campgrounds has been contaminated, prompting a shutdown to users, the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday. Forest Service officials were doing a ...

Lava appeared after the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) announced detection of a a magnitude-4.4 earthquake located beneath Kīlauea Volcano's south flank. This event was ...

Despite what the movies tell you, very few of the Earth's 1,500 potentially active volcanoes actually contain bubbling pools of lava. These lava lakes are so rare that before Wednesday only seven were ...

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Hollywood would have you believe that at the peak of most volcanoes is a roiling, red-hot lake of lava, perfect for human sacrifices or killing James Bond. Persistent lava lakes are actually quite ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft saw molten rock—and a mountain straight out of Star Wars —on Jupiter's moon Io. Reading time 2 minutes Two recent flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io by NASA’s Juno spacecraft revealed ...

On Hawaii's Big Island, Kilauea volcano erupted Dec. 20 for the first time in more than two years. Lava spewed from a fissure in the northwest wall of Halemaʻumaʻu crater and cascaded into the deepest ...

Heralded by fiery lava fountains and plumes of poisonous gas, a new lava lake has appeared atop one of Africa's most active volcanoes for the first time in 75 years. The lava lake at Nyamuragira ...