For the first time in roughly 12,000 years, a long‑quiet volcano in Ethiopia has roared back to life, sending fountains of lava and towering ash into the sky and jolting one of the world’s most ...

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest 1. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...

Most people associate ash and churning lava with volcanic activity, but volcanoes also produce formations that look unnervingly like human ponytails. Known as Pele's hair, these extremely thin strands ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lava fountain is shown erupting within Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at the summit of Kīlauea. - M. Patrick/USGS Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano ...