Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles ...

Analysis of the second confirmed interstellar comet to visit our solar system suggests that the alien body could be covered ...

The volcanic ash cloud is made of tiny, sharp particles of rock, minerals and volcanic glass. The formation of the particles ...

A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption in 12,000 years. The volcano, called Hayli ...

What is the importance of studying explosive volcanism on Venus? This is what a study published in the Journal of Geophysical ...

An international team of researchers including a scientist from ETH has shown that friction in magma leads to the formation ...

Scientists have discovered that shear forces inside rising magma can create gas bubbles long before pressure drops occur. The ...

For decades, volcanologists believed that the primary trigger for explosive eruptions was a drop in pressure as magma rises ...

The physics of java and lava are actually quite similar, at least when it comes to bubbles, according to a surprising study.

A large formation of granite discovered below the lunar surface likely was formed from the cooling of molten lava that fed a volcano or volcanoes that erupted early in the Moon's history -- as long as ...