A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

The findings could impact how we understand the composition of the land we walk on, together with our understanding of volcanic activity and earthquake risk ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj volcanic field interspersed with patches of golden sand.

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, earth scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi ...

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island, scientists from University of ...

When these plumes reach the surface, they result in volcanoes forming, spewing forth lava like they recently have in Hawaii and in Iceland. "We think that those mantle plumes originate at the ...

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, earth scientists from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and colleagues revealed that Hawai‘i’s two most active volcanoes ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Hawai'i's Kīlauea and Maunaloa volcanoes share a magma source within the Hawaiian plume, challenging previous beliefs of separate magma pathways. This shared ...