Episode 28 of Kīlauea’s summit eruption delivered a dramatic display, blasting lava 1,200 feet into the air during nine hours ...

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers on July 10, 2025, visited monitoring stations downwind of the Kīlauea summit ...

According to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, the north vent stopped around 1:20 p.m. The south vent did not open during this ...

Update at 3:37 p.m. July 9, 2025: Episode 28 of the ongoing episodic summit eruption of the Big Island’s Kīlauea volcano ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano lit up the night on Tuesday as lava fountains filled a lake of molten rock at its summit crater Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

But every year, visitors to Hawaii have been picking up lava rocks as souvenirs and mailing them back, once they hear of a myth that bad luck will befall them. In 2017, ...

Hawaiʻi Island is commonly called the Big Island. It’s a land of powerful contrasts: lava-sculpted coastlines, snow-capped ...

For example, lava traveling through a Hawaiian volcano's tubes, or underground passageways, is about 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the United States Geological Survey. Additionally ...

Massive lava fountains were sent soaring as high as 700 feet into the air on the big island of Hawaii as it erupted, producing intense heat, glowing streams of molten rock, and plumes of volcanic ...

HONOLULU — Lava began bubbling out of Hawaii’s most active volcano once again on Tuesday as Kilauea's sporadic eruption resumed. The eruption restarted at midday when when molten rock began ...

Hawaii’s ecosystems are isolated enough—and thus simple enough—that ecologists can recite the typical order of arrival on new lava. Lichens appear first, needing only air, moisture, rock.