A river of lava is flowing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain's La Palma island after the north side of the crater collapsed. It's pouring into the ocean and expanding the coastline as it cools.

After this lava delta collapsed, new lava spewed from the tube like a fire hose into the ocean 60 feet below. This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Veteran ...

I n 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. While surveying ...

Video footage shows a geologist scooping molten lava into a bucket of water before it is taken away for testing. The lava has a thin crust on it that's caused by air cooling, so the geologist has ...

Red-hot lava flowed into the Atlantic Ocean surrounding the island of La Palma in Spain on Wednesday morning. The molten rock stream came from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which has been erupting ...

But what would actually happen if you fell into lava? As morbid as the thought may ... to the incredible pressure at the bottom of the ocean. Would you painfully disintegrate within mere seconds ...