While most people are familiar with “the floor being lava” as a concept—even as a Netflix show—it’s rare for there to be a literal lava floor. But that is indeed the case when geologists collect hot ...

In the past, HVO would occasionally post images of people collecting lava samples on our website. These photos usually featured a person (with little-exposed skin) holding a rock hammer, with a metal ...

The Kilauea volcano inside of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is currently erupting in a remote and closed area of the park. According to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, the eruption started ...

Hawaii’s Mokuʻāweoweo, or Mauna Loa, hadn’t seen any external activity for nearly four decades when it erupted in November. Lava flowed from the volcano’s caldera for almost two weeks; ash drifted ...