A picture of Midway Geiser in Yellowstone National Park shows streams of red liquid flowing away from its center. The amount of melted rock beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano is far higher than ...

A new study has uncovered a previously undetected magma chamber beneath Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano in the Mediterranean Sea near Santorini, Greece. A group of international researchers used ...

Geologists have come up with multiple lines of evidence indicating that the Bushveld Complex in South Africa functioned as a 'big magma tank' in the ancient Earth's crust. An international group of ...

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 a ...

A giant magma chamber has been discovered growing underneath an active submarine volcano in Greece. Scientists, who have published a study on the chamber in the American Geophysical Union's ...

Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long known about the chamber’s existence, but have yet to precisely locate its ...

The future of geology — and maybe even renewable energy — is heating up, literally. Scientists in Iceland are steaming ahead with an ambitious project to drill straight down into a magma chamber that ...

The traditional hypothesis about totally molten magma chambers (key to volcanic activity) may just be correct, despite some recent studies claiming otherwise. Wits researchers have compelling evidence ...

Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A geothermal-power company drilling a mile and a half deep on one of the Hawaiian Islands has encountered an undisturbed chamber of magma, or molten rock, scientists reported this week.