Nearly three years after Kilauea Volcano started spewing lava within the Leilani Estates subdivision in Lower Puna, the historic eruption of 2018 continues to fuel scientific study. A team of ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

The 2018 Kilauea eruption provided scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to identify new factors that could help forecast the hazard potential of future eruptions. “The study is very unusual ...

April 7 (UPI) --Scientists were able to estimate the viscosity of magma inside Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano by studying fault movements before and during the volcano's eruption in 2018. The breakthrough, ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...

The asthenosphere is in this case the interval of plastic, less viscous fluid in between the lithosphere (Earth's crust) and rigid upper mantle. This mantle plume that creates Iceland injects hot, ...

Previous research estimated that it took hundreds of million years for the ancient Earth's magma ocean to solidify, but new research narrows these large uncertainties down to less than just a couple ...

Of the geological features in Quarry Park, some of the most diverse involve xenoliths. As mentioned in an earlier column, xenoliths are bits of an older rock that fell into, or were swept away by, a ...

2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawai'i provided scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to identify new factors that could help forecast the hazard potential of future eruptions Washington, ...

An illustration of Earth as it existed during part of its formation billions of years ago, when an ocean of magma covered the surface of the planet and stretched thousands of miles deep into the core.

The properties of the magma inside a volcano affect how an eruption will play out. In particular, the viscosity of this molten rock is a major factor in influencing how hazardous an eruption could be ...