A new study by geoscientists has identified the temperature at which cooling magma cracks to form geometric columns such as those found at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and Devils Postpile ...

The Yellowstone supervolcano rises more than 9,000 feet above ground. Sculpted by 2 million years of explosive volcanic activity, the nation's first national park is hiding massive calderas—deep, ...

April 12 (UPI) --Scientists have identified the temperature at which cooling magma breaks into the geometric columns that form Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and Devils Postpile in California.

Yellowstone’s volcanic heart is one of the largest magmatic systems on Earth, yet the park’s steaming vents and geysers are ...

When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian volcano, there is understandably a lot of excitement and apprehension. How far will the magma go, and will it erupt? But even long after the activity ...

The Airbus helicopter bucked wildly in the frigid air hundreds of meters above the Chilean Andes. Every time it heeled over to turn, the helicopter dropped 20 meters, and the jagged peaks below seemed ...

Previous research estimated that it took hundreds of million years for the ancient Earth's magma ocean to solidify, but new research narrows these large uncertainties down to less than just a couple ...

IDW has not issued any confirmation of Bleeding Cool's scoop last week that Bobby Curnow, former Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Group Editor and up until last week, the EIC of Magma Comix, was the new ...

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