Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay NASA has released stunning new artist impressions of an extremely reflective lava lake on the ...

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

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

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa; it's ...

Incredible footage of the Kilauea Volcano shows lava shooting over 600 feet into the air earlier this week on Tuesday evening. These are the largest eruptions seen in over 11 episodes since Kilauea ...

Tephra includes large, dense chunks, light rock debris, and ash. The restless lava lake in Nyiragongo's summit crater regularly causes eruptions of gas and smoke laden with tephra. Lava is the ...

The Nyiragongo volcano saw its last major eruption in 2002. When it's not erupting, it's home to the world's largest lava lake. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science The Nyiragongo ...

NASA confirmed that a chunk of debris that crashed into a Florida home came from a battery pallet ejected from the ISS, and archaeologists found evidence that humans used a lava tube as a shelter ...

Lava from Mauna Loa could block main highway ... lava flowing from a fissure on Mauna Loa and the glow from the lava lake at nearby Kilauea volcano. Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active ...