Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay NASA has released stunning new artist impressions of an extremely reflective lava lake on the ...

The restless lava lake in Nyiragongo's summit crater regularly causes eruptions of gas and smoke laden with tephra. Lava is the word for magma when it erupts onto the Earth's surface. Geologists ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

The Nyiragongo volcano saw its last major eruption in 2002. When it's not erupting, it's home to the world's largest lava lake. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science The Nyiragongo ...

Among them, Crater Lake volcano, inactive for thousands of years, still harbors a vast magma reservoir. This discovery contradicts the idea that magma chambers dissipate after a period of inactivity.