Kīlauea’s 2026 eruption shows increased lava fountains and ash spread, with volcanic plumes affecting communities up to 50 miles away. Learn how episodes drive the activity.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Rocky pillars dotting Iceland’s Skaelingar valley were projectiles tossed into the fields by warring trolls. That, at least, is the tale that University at Buffalo geologist Tracy ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — What happens when lava and water meet? Explosive experiments with human-made lava are helping to answer this important question. By cooking up 10-gallon batches of molten rock and ...
GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Thursday for the third time since December, sending jets of lava into the sky, triggering the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon ...
GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Thursday for the third time since December, sending jets of lava into the sky, triggering the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon ...
Lava from an eruption that began in the early hours of Thursday morning on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has flowed towards a geothermal power plant, rupturing a hot water pipe that supplied thousands ...
Officials in Iceland are considering preemptive water pumping to divert potential lava threatening the town of Grindavík. Similar tactics in 1973 on Heimaey proved effective. Head of civil protection, ...
For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...