Despite what the movies tell you, very few of the Earth's 1,500 potentially active volcanoes actually contain bubbling pools of lava. These lava lakes are so rare that before Wednesday only seven were ...

A huge lake of sizzling hot lava has been discovered in a volcano on a remote sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It's only the eighth lake of molten rock ever discovered on Earth.

Hollywood would have you believe that at the peak of most volcanoes is a roiling, red-hot lake of lava, perfect for human sacrifices or killing James Bond. Persistent lava lakes are actually quite ...

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NASA just released stunning new artist impressions of an extremely reflective lava lake on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. Released by the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab last week, the generated ...

Update: The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports the lava lake within Halemaumau crater continues to rise. The lava lake has been rising approximately several yards an hour since the eruption began at ...

Heralded by fiery lava fountains and plumes of poisonous gas, a new lava lake has appeared atop one of Africa's most active volcanoes for the first time in 75 years. The lava lake at Nyamuragira ...