Lava planets don’t play by the rules of our solar system. These scorching-hot worlds, some no bigger than Earth, orbit so ...

Modelling suggests that data collected by JWST will be able to distinguish between planets that are molten to the core and ...

When magma becomes too much to handle, gases will not be able to exit the landform. This leads pressure to build up and will eventually cause an explosion of gas and lava, according to the USGS.

A new study from the University of Florida analyzing moon rock samples from a Chinese lunar exploration mission is rewriting ...

Bill Whitaker was there as lava flowed from a volcano in Iceland in 2021, covering the landscape in molten rock. He returned to see what scientists have learned from the eruption.

The thickest lava doesn't even flow, it just plugs up the plumbing of a volcano and can be the cause of violent explosions. So the different between magma and lava is location.

Lava is molten rock, or magma, that reaches the earth's surface in a slush of crystals and bubbles of volcanic gases. Its chemical composition includes silicon, aluminum, oxygen, and iron.

In the background, the footage showed lava fountaining 328 feet high at one of the fissures. The fountains are created by vents closing, forcing magma to burst through a single outpoint, Stovall said.

Magma Design Automation Incorporated (Nasdaq:LAVA) is trading at unusually high volume Friday with 4.3 million shares changing hands. It is currently at 4.3 times its average daily volume 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 ...

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 Saturday.Since a ...