Volcanos are releasing ash and smoke into the atmosphere on three continents. That might be making you think back to your elementary school science class when you probably studied volcanoes and lava.

There has been a recent volcanic eruption in Hayli Gubbi, Ethiopia, that has spread volcanic ash as far as India. This volcano erupted after 12000 years. Now, when we say 'volcano,' two words come to ...

Magma is the molten material beneath the Earth's crust. It usually collects in a magma chamber beneath a volcano, and can then be injected into cracks in rocks or issue out of volcanoes in eruptions.

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...

Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as ...

For decades, astronomers assumed that small, rocky planets in precarious proximity to their stars were destined to be barren, ...

A lava river fed by the erupting Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is moving faster. A river of lava fed by the erupting Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii and its many fissures was moving faster and ...

PAHOA, Hawaii --Lava oozing out of cracks for two weeks in rural Hawaii neighborhoods took on new characteristics as fresher magma mixed with decades-old magma, sending a flow toward the ocean this ...