Underneath Iceland's sometimes snowy surface is a boiling cauldron of superheated magma. It's a bane to residents who are at ...

A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals, according to new research ...

Scientists examine a large dike, formed from a sheet of magma that came to Earth’s surface millions of years ago during the Columbia River Basalt eruptions. These dikes fed magma to massive eruptions.

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Before Earth became the blue planet, it was engulfed by a very different kind of ocean: a vast, deep magma ocean reaching ...

The study published on Science, conducted by a team led by Xu Yigang, an academician of the CAS and a researcher at the ...

Because of erosion, the area known as the "Alps of Oregon" exposes these rocks that once constituted magma deep in the Earth. Team members, including Black and colleagues and graduate students ...

The findings back up a theory that magma formed the Moon's surface around ... 2025 or 2026 when it hopes to collect and bring back to Earth samples from the lunar surface for analysis.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

It then descends into the Earth's mantle, the layer underneath the crust, melts in the mantle's hot magma, and is spewed out in a volcanic eruption. Many spectacular volcanoes are found along ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...