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

Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long ...

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

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.

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

In their study published in the journal Science, the group analyzed a moon soil sample returned to Earth by China's Chang ... it was covered by an ocean of magma. Chang'e-6 basaltic fragment.

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents. The research shows this fingerprint existed in Earth’s first ...

Vial is set to receive the Sloan Science on Screen Award on April 21 for “Magma,” which has its international ... Berkeley’s department of earth and planetary science.