Clues about how lava spreads great distances on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io come from high-resolution views taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft of a lava channel flowing out of Emakong Patera near Io’s ...

Volcanologists on Thursday said they discovered a "lava tsunami" rapidly flowing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma. Cumbre Vieja started erupting nearly a month ago, ...

We know of several forces capable of carving their way through the surface of a planet, leaving it with visible scars in the process. One of those forces is life-giving water. The other, devastating ...

Diagram highlighting areas of presumed lava channels on Mars Details from the Ascraeus channel (red), meandering across the surface of Mars. The insets in the black boxes show close-ups of some of the ...