A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, researchers say. Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could potentially ...

Earth held a deep ocean of magma beneath its surface in its early history, new research finds, potentially explaining odd anomalies seen in the mantle today. This basal magma ocean has been hotly ...

About 20 km 3 of new ocean crust is formed each year along the spreading centres of the global mid-ocean-ridge system. These spreading centres are usually not simple, linear structures, but are ...

An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The ...

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Here’s how it works. Lava around the world may come from the same magma ancestor deep in Earth's middle layer, new research finds. The study suggests that the deep mantle, where magma arises ...

Discover how magma forms, bubbles, and leads to volcanic eruptions, including insights on dormant volcanoes like Uturuncu in ...

A major problem with current magma ocean formation models is the lack of consensus on the melting temperatures of deep mantle rocks. Models explaining Earth's core formation use a specific set of ...

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

But only in the northeastern region of the caldera is the magma in touch with hot basalt rock from the mantle that will keep the magma liquid in the long term. Despite the large volume of magma ...