A mysterious type of magma found within extinct volcanoes scattered around the world could contain an abundant supply of rare earth elements, crucial ingredients for electric vehicles, wind turbines ...

Deep beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, a massive magma reservoir is refilling 7,300 years after one of the most powerful ...

Extinct volcanoes are hard to study – we never see them erupt. Using a unique experimental technique, we were able to recreate a certain type of extinct volcano in a lab, learning more about the magma ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava flows. Others erupt violently, sending ash and molten rock high into the sky.

Learn how magma, gas, and water drive eruptions; compare eruption and volcano types, understand warning signs, and follow ...

Learn how scientists discovered that Methana, a volcano in Greece believed to be dormant, was actually collecting magma for millennia. There are more extinct volcanoes across the world than active ...

How do volcanoes work? What happens beneath their surface? What causes the vibrations—known as tremor—that occur when magma or gases move upward through a volcano's conduits? Professor Dr. Miriam ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Before Earth became the blue planet, it was engulfed by a very different kind of ocean: a vast, deep magma ocean reaching down hundreds or perhaps even thousands of kilometers. As early Earth's magma ...