A false-color satellite photo from 2023 shows a devilish pair of lava flows and an enormous plume of smoke spewing from ...

Viewers flock to watch fountains of glowing lava spew from the world's largest volcano 02:04. Gabi Laske is a professor of geophysics at the University of California—San Diego.

The magma that comes out of Mauna Loa comes from a series of magma chambers found between about 1 and 25 miles (2 and 40 km) below the surface. These magma chambers are only temporary storage ...

Beneath Hawaii, magma can move upward through the cracks to feed different volcanoes on the surface. The same thing happens at Maui’s Haleakala, which last erupted about 250 years ago.

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began sending up fountains of glowing rock and spilling lava from fissures as its first eruption in nearly four decades began on Nov. 27 ...