Helgi Hjorleifsson, a firefighter, is a leader in a national experiment to steer rivers of lava away from important sites.

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...

Few natural wonders are as breathtakingly surreal as the electric blue flames dancing across Indonesia's Kawah Ijen volcano. Unlike the familiar red-orange glow of molten lava, this volcano gives off ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano put on a dramatic display Sunday night, shooting lava fountains over 1,000 feet into the air. The six-hour eruption, which ended at 10:25 p.m. local time, marked the 23rd ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea—one of Earth’s most active volcanoes—is bringing the drama. On December 6 lava fountains in the Halema‘uma‘u crater at the shield volcano’s summit spewed more than 1,000 feet into the ...

On Dec. 23, 2024, eruptive activity at Kilauea’s summit began again with the first in what has become 20 discrete lava fountaining episodes. Many episodes have had dual fountains — two erupting at the ...

Fresh lava fountains erupted from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano on Saturday, US vulcanologists said, nearly a year after one of the world’s most active volcanoes began its current eruptive phase. Webcam ...