Lava spatters inside and flows down the side of the north vent inside Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on ...

Volcanoes offer breath-taking views and thrilling adventures. Explore Iceland’s Thrihnukagigur magma chamber, Costa Rica’s ...

Among them, Crater Lake in Oregon, which has been inactive for 4,800 years, harbors a surprisingly large magma chamber beneath it. These findings, published in Nature Geoscience, could reshape how ...

By the end of the day, about 7 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, data from 16 crystals was collected and analyzed. The data, which ...

To time how fast a sprinter runs, you just need a stopwatch. To time how fast magma moves, you need to know a little bit ...

Magma collects inside a volcano's magma chamber before it erupts. Nyiragongo's magma chamber is located about 10 miles below the surface of the Earth.

First, a plume of heat wells up from deep within the planet and melts rock just beneath the crust of the Earth, creating a vast chamber filled with a pressurized mix of magma, semisolid rock ...