Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

From the deepest shadows, Slattern rises, threatening the lives of brave soldiers. Meanwhile, deep beneath the ocean, blazing magma veins illuminate the dark abyss, serving as a warning of nature's ...

In the scorching heat of the Sahara desert in November 2023, a meteorite searcher found something that would be felt by the scientific world as well as collectors: a 54-pound Martian meteorite, NWA ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

And every volcanic eruption releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, triggering a gnarly environmental feedback loop.

And the eruptions can make warming worse, melting more glaciers.

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

Scientists like Bolton have been trying to understand Io’s exuberant volcanism ever since. A leading theory has been that just below the moon’s crust hides a global magma ocean, a vast ...

Furthermore, this work reveals that the formation of a basal magma ocean was inevitable on Earth, even under the most unfavorable conditions. Additionally, the geochemical imprint of this ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, may still persist today as odd anomalies in the mantle.

A Chinese study found that the Moon was wholly covered by a molten “magma ocean” in the early phases of its formation. A study by the China National Space Administration, published in the ...