Helgi Hjorleifsson, a firefighter, is a leader in a national experiment to steer rivers of lava away from important sites.

The latest lava fountaining episode of an erupting Hawaii volcano reached 1,000 feet (300 meters) high Tuesday, prompting temporary closures ...

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...

The Hawaii County Council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday awarding nearly $6 million from the Kilauea Recovery Grant Program to a variety of local nonprofit organizations providing relief ...

Several companies are already developing solutions to mine asteroids in space, as they contain many useful elements, such as water and gold.

Manila: Fresh lava effusion and flowing molten rock were observed at Mayon Volcano over the past 24 hours, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. State volcanologists ...

Scientists may have found the first evidence of underground tunnels lurking beneath the surface of Venus, carved by the planet’s ancient volcanic activity. A team of researchers from the University of ...

The discovery was made by re-analyzing radar data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft from the early 1990s. This finding confirms long-held theories about the existence of subsurface volcanic features on ...

Researchers had only hypothesized the existence of underground lava tubes on Venus—until now. Using decades-old radar data, a team of scientists in Italy has discovered an empty, subsurface lava tube ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity created by a lava ...