SHELDON: YOU MIGHT’VE HAD A LAVA LAMP AS A KID. NOW, YOUR CHILD CAN MAKE ONE RIGHT AT HOME. LAVA LAMPS ARE ALWAYS FUN AND COOL TO LOOK AT. TODAY WE WILL LEARN HOW WE CAN MAKE ONE. IT US ABOUT THE ...

Before Moonfall and Don't Look Up, there were the disaster films of the '90s. They always seemed to come in pairs. Dante's Peak gave audiences two hours of Pierce Brosnan against a tectonic inferno, ...

Archaeologists working in a volcanic field in northern Saudi Arabia have recovered human bones, stone tools, and charcoal ...

Hidden lava tunnels on the Moon and Mars could one day shelter human explorers, offering natural protection from radiation and space debris. A European research team has unveiled a bold new mission ...

On Mars or the Moon, researchers use high-resolution optical cameras to spot “skylights,” which are essentially holes in the ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a gigantic empty lava tunnel beneath Venus, revealing a hidden volcanic world on ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While the recent eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii ...

Hollow pillars of lava in an Icelandic valley like those found on the seafloor actually formed when molten rock oozed over soggy land, researchers propose in the Aug. 15 Journal of Volcanology and ...

Kilauea’s 2018 eruption gave a surprising boost to ocean algae. Metals in the lava could have helped fuel a 150-kilometer-long phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Hawaii — but unexpectedly, heat was ...

Volcano-like features on Mars may actually be the result of mud flows rather than lava, researchers now say. Using simulated Mars conditions, researchers were able to create mud flows that look a lot ...

Astronomers may be starting to get the goods on lava planets. These fiery worlds share a similar density to Earth but orbit so close to their host stars that their scorching daytime temperatures melt ...

What can lava planets, rocky exoplanets that are tidally locked and orbit so close to their stars that the intense heat melts the surface, teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution?