Turns out, the wind carried the glassy strands 30 miles from Kilauea to Kau. Pele’s hair is formed by gas during a volcanic eruption. When bubbles of gas near the surface of a lava flow burst, it can ...

An erupting Hawaii volcano once again began shooting fountains of lava that reached hundreds of feet high on Tuesday.

An erupting Hawaii volcano once again began shooting fountains of lava that reached hundreds of feet high on Tuesday. Fountains reached heights of 400 feet to 500 feet in the early morning hours, ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

Lava flowed from Kilauea volcano amid its renewed activity in Hawaii. The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory team reported that only weak vent activity was observed during ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the ...

Lava from the Kilauea volcano created what a tour operator described as “showers of gold” as it spewed from the crater during the 11th episode of recent eruption activity on Tuesday, February 25.

Pyroclastic flows can be as hot as 1,300 F (700 C). Explosive eruptions might also release molten lava flows and lava bombs, which are chunks of partially melted rock that can fly for miles.

February is one of the busiest times of the year at Yosemite National Park thanks to “firefall,” a natural phenomenon that causes a glowing ribbon of water to look like molten lava cascading ...

With just the right conditions, the Horsetail Fall down El Capitan glows orange like molten fire. This natural phenomenon was first stumbled upon in 1973. There are a few things that need to come ...

When lava encroaches on the frozen stuff ... Stopping all of them sounds as futile halting the very endless tides of molten rock they're all lining up to see.