volcanoes in the land of fire and ice are known to draw huge crowds with Spectators, often hiking miles to get close to the lava. Now, this new tourist attraction in Iceland is giving lava lovers the ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of ...

A HUGE volcano on the east coast of Sicily has erupted. Dramatic footage shows Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, ...

The proliferation of drones bearing cameras has brought many a new sight. Like, a bird's-eye-view of sharks casually swimming at the local beach—which is, let's just say, unsettling—or, now, an ...

GOMA, Congo — After a night of chaos and panic, the threat from an erupting volcano to a major city in Congo appeared to recede Sunday when a river of boiling lava halted at the city’s northern edge.

Professors Jeff Karson and Bob Wysocki at Syracuse University in New York have invented a way to make artificial lava that looks—and burns—just like the real stuff. Science Insider recently spoke with ...

For 27 years the bleak crater of the volcano of Santa Maria has jutted high in the backbone of the Sierra Madre, breathing acrid vapors against the blue Guatemalan sky. Never since the eruption of ...