A plant that can grow on a lava rock, who would have thought? Lava rock houseplants are plants, such as Schefflera or Diversifolium (as well as a few others), that can grow on these specific rocks.

Venice, Italy (CNN) — Erupting from fiery volcanoes, lava has historically been an uncontrollable force that destroys buildings and neighborhoods in its wake. But what if that force could instead be ...

These dark blue spots are islands of cooled lava that appear to be rising from the floor of a lava lake inside Hawaii’s Kilauea’s volcano. USGS image It’s one of nature’s oddities that islands can ...

Lava tubes on celestial bodies like the Moon and Mars are proposed as potential habitats due to their shielding properties against radiation, micrometeorites, and temperature fluctuations. Scientific ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Adding relatively minor factors like crystals, water, ice, and metal can drastically affect how lava moves, cools, and creates formations. When lava meets water, for ...

H awaii's Kilauea volcano is on a roll. The active volcano recently had its 36th episode of eruption, and it was quite ...

PUNA, Hawaii—In 2018, a large volcanic eruption spewed lava, rock and ash into the middle of a subdivision here, gobbling up more than 700 homes and displacing thousands of residents in a slow-motion ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in the arid deserts of northern Saudi Arabia, archaeologists have unearthed evidence that human beings once lived within cave-like lava tubes, marking the first instance ...