Magma is the molten rock that is present beneath the surface of the Earth, while lava is the one that comes out to the ...

For decades, volcanologists believed that the primary trigger for explosive eruptions was a drop in pressure as magma rises ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles ...

A huge river of underground magma responsible for the recent eruptions at Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula flowed much faster than scientists initially thought. The 9-mile-long magma dike, as the ...

Scientists have discovered that shear forces inside rising magma can create gas bubbles long before pressure drops occur. The ...

A new study explains why even gas-rich, supposedly explosive volcanoes sometimes erupt quietly instead of blowing apart.

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 ...

To reach proposed climate goals, we now need to look beyond the simple acts and focus instead on the bigger culprit industries, especially the building and construction sectors, which account for ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...