NASA's Magellan orbiter launched from Florida in 1989 helped scientists discover a vast underground lava tube on Venus in a major first.

Researchers participating in the VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) mission field campaign to Iceland examine part of the Fagradalsfjall lava field, one ...

A powerful swarm of earthquakes in January suggested one of Iceland’s giant “ice volcanoes” may be awakening after a decade of slumber. In the months that followed, more earthquakes have rocked the ...

Scientists studying recent volcanic eruptions in Iceland have discovered that microbes begin colonizing new lava flows far faster—and more predictably—than previously thought. “The lava coming out of ...

How life forms spread to new habitats is a process that is not well understood by ecologists. A University of Arizona0led study of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland is helping paint a better ...

On March 23, 2021, glowing lava is seen oozing from Iceland's Fagradalsfjall volcano. Solange Duhamel climbs onto a freshly cooled lava flow to collect samples.Christopher Hamilton Whether it is a ...

Not even the strongest microbes can survive volcanic eruptions, but they are capable of returning surprisingly quickly, according to a new study. Reading time 3 minutes Microbes have a penchant to ...

Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions. While nature's resilience to natural disasters has long been recognized, not much is known ...

The current series of eruptions has featured lava fountains up to 1,500 feet. Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is once again shooting lava more than 1,000 feet into the air. Episode 36 of the current series ...

An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...