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While tracking seismic activity on Denali, scientists stumbled upon an anomaly that could indicate the presence of magma. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology for a virtual seminar by Margaret "Maggie" Thompson, Ph.D. at 11 a.m. on Thursday, February 6. Abstract One of the most characterizable ...

Magma continues to accumulate in a chamber beneath Svartsengi and has now reached levels thought to have triggered the volcanic eruption that sent lava flowing into Grindavík on Jan. 14. When you ...

Early in the formation of Earth, an ocean of magma covered the planet’s surface and stretched thousands of miles deep into its core. The rate at which that “magma ocean” cooled affected the formation ...

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New experimental research demonstrates that sub-Neptune exoplanets, the most common class discovered, could possess large quantities of liquid water. The study simulated early planetary conditions, ...

One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its eruption with a trickle, not a blast. Mount St. Helens' gas-laden magma oozed into the cone before the mountain finally erupted in 1980.

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began sending up fountains of glowing rock and spilling lava from fissures as its first eruption in nearly four decades began on Nov. 27, 2022.

An illustration of Earth as it existed during part of its formation billions of years ago, when an ocean of magma covered the surface of the planet and stretched thousands of miles deep into the core.