Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies something extraordinary—a giant underground chamber filled with molten rock, trapped gases, and intense heat. For years, scientists have known about this ...

They found that magma was moving in the cracks created by the fault system 6 to 9 miles beneath the surface. Because the ...

Data from previous missions had made planetary scientists wonder whether, rather than just pockets of melt, Io contained a 31-mile (50-kilometer) deep layer of magma: a moon-wide ocean of molten rock.

If the ice sheet melts sufficiently, the changes in stress and pressure on Earth's crust, and the magma chambers therein, could generate a feedback loop of volcanism that accelerates the ice melt ...

Messing with our planet’s “magma plumbing system” is a really bad idea. By Darren Orf Published: Jan 16, 2025 8:30 AM EST Abstract Aerial Art // Getty Images ...

Once magma chambers become unstable, they could continue erupting periodically for thousands of years, continually melting ice. Moreover, rising carbon dioxide levels intensify this feedback loop.

When in this pool, the magma melted the crustal rocks around it, which contained minute amounts of water, carbon dioxide and other gases, in addition to rhenium.

Although the USGS identified pockets of melted rhyolite rock under all of Yellowstone, channels of magma connect the northeast rhyolite melt pockets to deeper reservoirs of molten basalt. Magma ...

Once the rock melted and became “magmatic,” the iron-rich magma absorbed all the rare earth elements from its surrounding environment, according to the study, which concluded this iron-rich ...

Geoscientists discovered a magma cap acting as a "lid" 2.4 miles beneath Yellowstone. This magma cap traps heat and pressure, but also allows gas to vent, reducing eruption risk.