Earth has a weird volcano located in Tanzania which, while continuously erupting carbonatite lava, is also sinking inside the ground ... volcano is filled with magma which has been erupting ...

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 ...

Iron sinks to form Earth's core, while silicon, magnesium, and aluminum gradually rise toward the surface. Gases released from magma (molten rock) inside Earth escape through cracks in the surface ...

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

Today, Yellowstone remains a place of low volcanic risk. Sure, there are sometimes small explosions stoked by hot water and ...

This primordial element was already known to exist inside Earth. Each year ... is pulling apart and out of volcanic hotspots that tap magma from the deep mantle. But exactly how it has remained ...

Magma collects inside a volcano's magma chamber before it erupts. Nyiragongo's magma chamber is located about 10 miles below the surface of the Earth.

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...