Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed ...

The other view holds that magma-chamber processes have only minor effects on the erupted lavas that can be easily corrected for, and that the variations in lava composition mainly reflect ...

Now, drawing upon the chemical composition of rock features on the planet's surface, scientists at MIT have proposed that Mercury may have harbored a large, roiling ocean of magma very early in ...

You pronounce her name Vahl-bohn-uh Mehmeh-tee, not Val-bone Mem-meeti. It’s from Italian, by way of Albania. “I’ve been `Vali’ since kindergarten, so you can call me that,&… ...

Bill Whitaker was there as lava flowed from a volcano in Iceland in 2021, covering the landscape in molten rock. He returned to see what scientists have learned from the eruption.

To their surprise, the scientists discovered that, although the volcanoes above spewed out uniform basaltic lava flows, the magma dwelling beneath the geological wonders was extremely diverse, and ...

Grove estimates that this magma ocean likely existed early in Mercury’s existence — possibly within the first 1 million to 10 million years — and may have been created from the violent ...