Create a colorful DIY lava lamp using oil and simple household materials while exploring basic science concepts. This easy experiment is a fun way to see how liquids interact and form moving bubbles.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found strong evidence that the rocky lava world HD 3167 b has an atmosphere, despite circling its star every 24 hours under extreme heat. The surprising discovery ...

What can lava planets, rocky exoplanets that are tidally locked and orbit so close to their stars that the intense heat melts the surface, teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution?

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Fountains of lava erupted from the Sundhnúkur volcanic system in southwest Iceland on Jan. 14, 2024. As the world watched on webcams and ...

After weeks of spewing ash and lava, Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is now shooting green crystals into the air. The tiny green gems, known as olivines, have been discovered by residents living on Hawaii’s ...

Kilauea’s 2018 eruption gave a surprising boost to ocean algae. Metals in the lava could have helped fuel a 150-kilometer-long phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Hawaii — but unexpectedly, heat was ...

Lunar lava tube investigation GIMLI, selected by NASA on October 1, 2026, will send ground-penetrating radar, seismic ...

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Was Mars home to microbial life? Is it today? What can it teach us about life elsewhere in the cosmos or how life began on Earth? What clues will we discover about Earth's past, present and future?

Subsurface cavities created by lava on Mars and the Moon could provide a shield against cosmic radiation, new research suggests. Researchers at the Universities of Bologna and Padua studied the ...