For decades, astronomers assumed that small, rocky planets in precarious proximity to their stars were destined to be barren, ...

TOI-561 b is about 1.4 times the size of Earth and completes one orbit around its star in less than 11 hours, placing it in ...

Since 2021, Iceland’s volcanos have been erupting lava flow every year on average, a sharp rise from the previous five-year standard. On Wednesday, November 20, a volcano near Iceland’s capital ...

Months before the Geldingadalir volcano erupted in 2021, Iceland's volcanologists knew it was coming. A subterranean serpent of magma was coiling through the depths looking for a way out. As the magma ...

The lava world 55 Cancri e doesn’t have an atmosphere of vaporized rock after all, according to recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A recent study suggests that 55 Cancri e — a ...

Lava fountains spewing from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano were captured on video lighting up the night after the volcano erupted on Sunday for the fifth time in almost four years. The U.S. Geological ...

A proposed manufacturing plant southeast of the Tri-Cities will make building insulation by crushing stone, melting it and spinning the lava-like material in an industrial-strength cotton candy maker.

(Reuters) - The latest bursts of molten rock, ash and toxic gas from Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii are part of an ever changing and still largely mysterious cycle of eruptions that have ...

As the world’s largest active volcano spews molten rock in Hawaii, the lava flow is inching closer to a major highway that serves as the shortest route between east and west sides of the Big Island.

A volcano in Iceland erupted on Thursday for the second time this year, pumping lava up to 80 metres (260 feet) into the air in what is the sixth outbreak on the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula since ...