Scientists in Iceland are aiming to drill 1.3 miles into the earth's crust to a volcano's magma chamber in order to source huge amounts of geothermal energy.

Learn how the boundaries of the magma chamber beneath Yellowstone have been located, and discover how these boundaries hint at the volcano's future behavior.

Images helped to identify a large magma chamber that has been growing at an average rate of roughly 4 million cubic meters per year since Kolumbo’s last eruption in 1650 C.E., nearly 400 years ago.

Scientists in Iceland want to drill straight into an underground magma chamber. The project could offer clues about how volcanoes work, as well as create geothermal energy. The biggest hurdles are ...

The presence of the magma chamber increases the chances of a future eruption, ... Greece, located only 7 kilometers (4 miles) from the volcano. ...

“The thought is that if you have carbon dioxide inclusions, then that gives you the location where the crystals are sitting and the inclusions are being trapped — usually a magma chamber ...

Scientists in Iceland have come up with an ambitious plan to drill into a volcano’s magma chamber to source an abundant amount of clean, super-hot geothermal energy.. The project, which would be ...

Though the existence of the magma reservoir beneath Yellowstone has been well-established, its location and contents are a lot less clear. That’s because researchers have long struggled to pinpoint ...

The project, which would be a scientific first if successful, would see boreholes drilled about 1.3 miles down through the earth’s crust at a volcano known as Krafla, located in the northeast of ...