If something is hot enough, it emits light in wavelengths that are visible to the human eye. This is called incandescence. If you’ve ever seen the red-, orange-, or yellow-ish glow from Kilauea ...

KAPOHO, Hawaii Island (HawaiiNewsNow) - This week, HVO geologists measured temperatures and documented rock layers exposed as sections of Highway 132 are “ripped” by road crews. Construction crews ...

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

To the casual observer, lava that recently flowed into the outskirts of Pahoa might look a lot like the lava that grazed the village of Kalapana in November 1986 and completely overran it in 1990. In ...

Lava is supposed to be red—that’s volcanoes 101. But at Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen, the Earth decides to break the rules. Instead ...

Scientists have produced detailed maps of temperature changes in a lava field on Jupiter’s moon Io — made possible when weather, technology and the planets aligned. Astronomers used the linked twin ...

Fresh lava looks like the last place anything could live, yet biologists are now finding microbial communities moving in ...

The near side of Earth's Moon, as seen using data from cameras aboard NASA's robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. NASA’S Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has found a nearside ...