The largest volcanoes in Earth’s history owe their formation to powerful geological phenomena called mantle plumes—upwellings of abnormally hot rock within the Earth’s mantle that rise toward the ...

The largest volcanoes in Earth’s history owe their formation to powerful geological phenomena called mantle plumes—upwellings of abnormally hot rock within the Earth’s mantle that rise toward the ...

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

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

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’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe ...

Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly ...

While there are no longer volcanoes in New England, evidence suggests there was volcanic activity hundreds of millions of ...

Furthermore, this work reveals that the formation of a basal magma ocean was inevitable on Earth, even under the most unfavorable conditions. Additionally, the geochemical imprint of this ...

Geologists turned to tiny bubbles to investigate the dynamics driving magma flow beneath Hawaii’s volcanoes as the country’s islands drift northwest on a tectonic plate. They found that, as the ...