Since silicic magmas are colder and goopier than mafic magmas, dissolved gases have a harder time venting out of them. This ...

VOLCANIC eruptions are a common occurrence, ranging from smaller-scale eruptions to full-blown explosions. So how do volcanoes erupt? And what is the difference between magma and lava? Every day, ...

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.

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 ...

Scientists have reported that more magma may soon break the surface in Sundhnúkur in Iceland, and they have issued a warning it may experience further volcanic activity. The current eruption, which ...

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.