The first study on the Moon samples brought back by the Chinese Chang'e-6 mission show that the Moon's far side was just as ...

Several past eruptions were characterized by similar lava fountaining episodes, including at the start of the Puʻuʻōʻō ...

Video footage shows the skiers coming down the slopes with glowing, molten lava flowing in the background. One skier was also captured celebrating the feat after he propels through the snow.

(Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey) The lava flow caused by the Midcontinent ... meaning the molten rock essentially sat there as an ocean of magma and took upwards of a thousand years to solidify.

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

A Chinese study found that the Moon was wholly covered by a molten “magma ocean” in the early phases of its formation. A study by the China National Space Administration, published in the ...

The volcanoes that form where tectonic plates are pushing together happen anywhere that ocean crust goes under ... Explosive eruptions might also release molten lava flows and lava bombs, which ...

HONOLULU (AP) — An erupting Hawaii volcano once again began shooting fountains of lava that reached hundreds ... vigorous fountains of bright-red molten rock and billowing smoke midmorning ...

Many people remember the 1983–2018 middle East Rift Zone of eruption of Pu‘u‘o‘o for the accessible lava flows on the coastal plain and ocean entries. But the first three years of the Pu ...

This marks the 13th episode of on-again, off-again lava activity of Kilauea volcano on the Big Island that started Dec. 23. A webcam showed vigorous fountains of bright-red molten rock and ...