To time how fast a sprinter runs, you just need a stopwatch. To time how fast magma moves, you need to know a little bit ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ...

BEIJING -- A new study of the lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission has verified the hypothesis that the moon ...

The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...

The new sub-brand is called Magma—yes, named after the molten rock beneath the Earth's crust—and Genesis promises a high level of performance that doesn’t compromise comfort or aesthetics.

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

Earth appears to be a chill blue planet, but deep down, it’s really a metalhead. Its outer core is mostly molten iron (and ...

It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might ...

The next layer, the mantle, stretches about 1,800 miles (2,900km) below Earth's surface. The mantle contains both magma, or molten rock, and slowly-moving solid rock. Earth's innermost layer is ...

This persistence suggests that eruptions do not entirely empty magma chambers. Instead, they release part of the magma, while the reservoir slowly replenishes through the gradual melting of the ...

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly ...