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 ...

High over the island of Sicily, Mount Etna smolders as Europe’s most active volcano. Underneath its rough slopes, a network ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists are planning to drill into an Iceland volcano in the hunt for near-unlimited energy. The project, helmed by the Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) organization, is set to start drilling into a ...

Anaheim, Calif., USA: For over a century, the concept of a shallow magma chamber—a large magma-filled cavity just ~5 km under the base of a volcano—has been the foundation for igneous petrology and ...

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 ...

Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar bears floating on ever-shrinking rafts of ice. While impacts such as sea level ...

In an effort to better understand volcanic activity and its origins on Earth and beyond, University researchers have examined the creation of magma chambers to help explain why these chambers exist at ...

Scientists aboard the research drilling ship JOIDES Resolution have, for the first time, drilled into a fossil magma chamber under intact ocean crust. There, 1.4 kilometers beneath the sea floor, they ...

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.

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.