Volcanos are releasing ash and smoke into the atmosphere on three continents. That might be making you think back to your elementary school science class when you probably studied volcanoes and lava.

Magma is the molten material beneath the Earth's crust. It usually collects in a magma chamber beneath a volcano, and can then be injected into cracks in rocks or issue out of volcanoes in eruptions.

PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) -- Lava oozing out of cracks for two weeks in rural Hawaii neighborhoods took on new characteristics as fresher magma mixed with decades-old magma, sending a flow toward the ocean ...

Scientists believe lava that's been erupting in a Hawaii residential neighborhood since last week is magma that's been stored in the ground since Kilauea volcano erupted in the same region 63 years ...

When astronomers first cataloged some of the closest orbiting rocky exoplanets, they wrote them off as bare, airless cinders, ...

A lava river fed by the erupting Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is moving faster. A river of lava fed by the erupting Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii and its many fissures was moving faster and ...

Months before the Geldingadalir volcano erupted in 2021, Iceland's volcanologists knew it was coming. A subterranean serpent of magma was coiling through the depths looking for a way out. As the magma ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Data from a new study suggests that the moon could have once been covered in an ocean of lava. The Chandrayaan-3 mission from the Indian Space Research Organizationsent a rover called ...

PAHOA, Hawaii – Lava oozing out of cracks for two weeks in rural Hawaii neighborhoods took on new characteristics as fresher magma mixed with decades-old magma, sending a flow toward the ocean ...