Mars is usually considered a geologically dead planet, but a new study challenges that idea. Multiple lines of evidence reveals a giant plume of magma is forcing its way up through the Red Planet’s ...

Scientists have discovered an ancient "ghost" plume lurking beneath Oman. The magma plume is trapped beneath a thick portion of Earth's crust and the upper part of the mantle, the planet's middle ...

Where is the magma surfacing at Mauna Loa coming from? The magma that comes out of Mauna Loa comes from a series of magma chambers found between about 1 and 25 miles (2 and 40 km) below the surface.

Signals from satellites orbiting hundreds of kilometers above Earth are revealing dramatic changes deep beneath the Antarctic ice. Scientists, using a network of satellites, seismic sensors, and GPS ...

Structures called "diapirs" behave a bit like a lava lamp. Potentially very destructive! Scientists think a magma plume fed the Siberian Traps, which ejected as much as 4 million cubic kilometers of ...

The characteristics of volcanoes scattered across the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, including Baekdu Mountain, Halla ...

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began sending up fountains of glowing rock and spilling lava from fissures as its first eruption in nearly four decades began on Nov. 27, 2022.

Oceanic island hotspots — Hawaii and Iceland — are the final destinations of elemental isotopes from the beginnings of Earth, in concentrations found nowhere else on Earth’s crust. Until now, it was ...