New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.

For decades, scientists have pieced together the moon’s history using samples from its near side, collected during NASA’s Apollo missions. But then in May 2024, China’s Chang’e 6 mission touched down ...

New research has pinpointed where theYellowstone supervolcano will likely erupt. It won't blow today, but future eruptions ...

As the subducted plate descends, the heat from the earth's interior causes the plate to begin melting, and buoyant liquid magma rises to the surface forming a line of volcanoes. Augustine Volcano ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

scientists recorded a kind of continuous earthquake there on Saturday night. It is assumed that liquid magma underground is causing the earth tremors.

Volcanoes are formed when magma (liquid rock) trapped underneath the Earth’s crust rises to the surface and escapes through cracks. The space for the magma to leave is very small and ...

Magma is molten rock - rock that is so hot it has turned into liquid. When magma reaches the surface of the Earth, it is called lava. Lava comes out of the volcano as a volcanic eruption ...