Using high-precision dating of geologic regions, scientists have found evidence that one of the most significant warming ...

Scientists are racing to find out whether rapid glacial melt could drive a surge in eruptions — and what that means for ...

Most animals (excluding the seemingly immortal among us) are defined by relatively short lifespans. While we might live “long and full lives,” as the saying goes, our time in the universe is merely an ...

Microbes -- alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface ...

The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart.

Scientists detected living microorganisms within a sealed fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock from South Africa, making them ...

“There is an enigmatic type of magma that contains unusually large ... Then, they placed synthetic materials “akin to volcanic rocks and magmas into small capsules or ‘bottles’ made ...

A thick portion of Earth’s crust may have capped the Samoan plume and suppressed volcanism for 30 million years, explaining a ...

Chang’e-6's retrieval of lunar farside samples reveals crucial insights into the SPA basin's intrusive magmatism, aiding the ...

Before Earth became the blue planet we know today, it was covered by a deep ocean of molten rock, or magma, that stretched ...

One surprising result was about the role of iron in molten rock. Despite expectations ... at the pressures expected to be found in the magma oceans of super-Earths, exoplanets with masses nearly ...