On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

 "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 ...

NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on ...

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 ...

Satellite pictures confirm there is a persistent lava lake inside the crater of a remote British Overseas Territory (BOT) volcano. Few enduring lava lakes are known globally; the one at Mount ...

The USGS said last week that both Mauna Loa and Kilauea had stopped erupting. Kilauea’s lava lake is stagnant and crusted over. Before this event, Mauna Loa had not erupted since 1984 ...

Expansive lava flows in the Sáttítla Highlands was captured by satellites ahead of the recent designation of the area as a national monument.

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 ...

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 north vent inside Halemaʻumaʻu Crater within the summit caldera of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island glows strong ...

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 ...