Large round bubbles of lava started splattering on the surface of a lava lake on the Hawaiian island of Kilauea this week. Located in the Overlook crater, within the Halemaʻumaʻu crater at the summit ...

Look closely at the photo above. See the white spots in the rock. Those are the remnants of bubbles trapped in ancient lava, and they may be rewriting Earth’s history. New analysis of these bubbles ...

Scientists studying the formation of the sea floor thousands of feet below the surface have a new theory for why there are so many holes and collapsed pits on the ocean bottom. Scientists studying the ...

Is there anything more spectacular than a towering lava fountain? Think about what it is: glowing red molten rock being shot into the sky, potentially hundreds or thousands of feet. As ubiquitous and ...

Two University of California, Berkeley, geophysicists have proposed an explanation for the unpredictable nature of volcanic eruptions, why volcanoes sometimes ooze lava, but at other times explode in ...

Figure 1: Macroscopic features of mid-ocean-ridge basalts indicative of magma–sea water interaction. Figure 2: Various images of textures and minerals in deep-sea basalt associated with lava–vapour ...

Scientists studying the formation of the sea floor thousands of feet below the surface have a new theory for why there are so many holes and collapsed pits on the ocean bottom. In a recent article in ...