Buried nearly 1,800 miles below Earth’s surface are two vast, continent-sized structures that continue to challenge our ...

Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock ...

The project could offer clues about how volcanoes work, as well as create geothermal energy. The biggest hurdles are getting funding for the project, and figuring out how to drill into magma.

A new study suggests that structures at the core-mantle boundary are remnants of an early basal magma ocean linked to Earth's ...

Magma is the molten rock that is present beneath the surface of the Earth, while lava is the one that comes out to the ...

The Yellowstone supervolcano in the Western US contains substantially more magma than scientists previously thought, according to a new study that may lead to a better assessment of the volcano’s ...

Using the world's most brilliant X-ray source, scientists have for the first time peered into molten magma at conditions of the deep Earth mantle. The analysis at DESY's light source PETRA III ...

Less visible and vocal than its American counterpart, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) is hard at work expanding the Asian country's presence on the Moon. Not only that, but the ...

More liquid magma lurks beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano than scientists once thought. But don’t panic: That amount of magma, researchers say, is still nowhere near enough to portend an eruption ...

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The extra magma doesn’t mean it’s more likely to erupt, scientists say. In fact, the better measurement helps them to understand its future. By Robin George Andrews Magma is the explosive lifeblood of ...