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.

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.

Tanzania's outlandish Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, the only volcano on Earth that is currently erupting carbonatite lava, has ...

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.

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 planets may sound like science fiction, but they're very real for astrophysics professor Dr. Lisa Dang, who is studying ...

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 ...

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 ...