AtIndonesia’s Kawah Ijen volcano, a breathtaking blue glow emerges at night, setting it apart from most volcanoes where lava ...

Lava is supposed to be red—that’s volcanoes 101. But at Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen, the Earth decides to break the rules. Instead ...

A new device helps scientists measure lava viscosity during active flows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last year, scientists ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (KGO) -- Scientists are seeing wave top data from the Kilauea lava flow that weren't taken by a manned boat. Instead, Sunnyvale based Liquid Robotics is testing the waters by remote ...

Forget about old waxy lava lamps and take a look at this magnetic version. It contains a magnetic liquid - a ferrofluid - that can be controlled from the outside of the lamp using solid magnets. By ...

I have seen some crazy closeup volcano photography before, but this is madness. Kawika Singson has gone closer to liquid lava than I have ever seen. Watch this footage of hot magma spilling right into ...

Young Earth’s molten lava ocean was layered like a pudding cake, according to a study published today (Nov. 6) in the journal Nature. Researchers think the Earth's first millennia were spent covered ...

The Lava Lamp–that uniquely-shaped 1970s psychedelic relic of liquid, lava and light that’s enjoying a pretty groovy life as a retro product in the 1990s–has gotten its laid-back ire up. In a court of ...

Two years after the start of the Kilauea eruption in lower Puna, lava from the eruption is still estimated to be only half-cooled. Carolyn Parcheta, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s ...

The volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma off the northwest coast of Africa hurled football-sized chunks of lava into the air as the eruption continued after subsiding for several days last week.