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 ...

How do you collect a fresh, uncontaminated lava sample hot from the volcano, then get it to the lab without it growing pesky crystals? Check out how researchers with the United States Geological ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Jeff Karson: Here we go. Abby Tang: This is lava. And this is also lava. One's man-made, and one's, well, coughed up by Mother Earth. But both these scientists ...

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 ...

On Monday, scientists collected a lava sample from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano as it erupted for the third time this year. The sample will help give experts insight into the volcano, one of the world's ...

When they collect a hot and molten lava sample, HVO scientists quench (cool) it in water. The sample collected on September 11 was driven from the eruption to UH-Hilo, where undergraduate geology ...

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 ...

The Earth’s core could be leaking after scientists have made a baffling discovery in the ancient lava. Studies of 62-million-year-old lava flowing on Baffin Island in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago found ...

When I read that the video featured here was intense, I was skeptical. One of my biggest gripes about “reality” television programs (and, to a lesser extent, documentaries) is how they often use music ...

When volcanologists need to figure out things like how fast a lava flow moves, why adding water can cause an explosion, or even how volcanoes work on other planets sampling lava is the key. But a ...