Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

Earth's rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet's molten youth using advanced quantum mechanical simulations, revealing ...

Now, a new satellite instrument from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designed to catch those minute shifts. Coined the ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Beneath the steaming geysers and bubbling mud pots of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the world’s most closely watched ...

Learn how the boundaries of the magma chamber beneath Yellowstone have been located, and discover how these boundaries hint at the volcano’s future behavior.

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

Beneath the steaming geysers and bubbling mud pots of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the world's most closely watched volcanic systems. Now a team of geoscientists has uncovered new evidence ...