This false-color satellite photo from 2014 shows the immense heat emanating from lava lakes at the summits of a pair of ...

A satellite image has captured the simultaneous eruptions of Africa’s most active volcanoes, Mount Nyamuragira and Mount ...

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health is urging residents and visitors to take precautions as elevated volcanic gas emissions from ...

A false-colour image from a satellite has shown the intense heat coming from a pair of lava lakes that emerged on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lava from Mauna Loa could block main highway ... lava flowing from a fissure on Mauna Loa and the glow from the lava lake at nearby Kilauea volcano. Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active ...

Fissures then opened in the summit area and sent lava fountaining into the sky. Now the area has filled with molten rock, creating a lake of lava in the volcano’s crater. The new lava is an ...

Scientists said “episode 18” of Kilauea volcano’s ongoing eruption restarted at 7:45 a.m. today with lava flows of 6 to 10 ...