A new study suggests Yellowstone is not powered by a deep vertical plume, as long believed, but by a broad, slow-moving flow ...

A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

A team of researchers have been studying how deep inside the Earth, underground earthquakes are reshaping the very planet we ...

A new study suggests rare earth elements form in magma above ancient subduction zones, as that magma reacts with substances ...

The secret to Earth's richest gold deposits isn't what scientists expected. It requires cooking the same rock twice.

A new geodynamic model is reshaping how scientists understand supervolcanoes, revealing that their magma systems may be far ...

Geoscientists have relied on different forms of lead to understand Earth's geological history and how it was created over ...

Researchers have found that Mercury's low-iron, high-sulfur chemistry allows its magma to stay liquid at lower temperatures ...

A sideways flow of hot mantle rock, not a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, may be feeding one of the planet’s most ...

The Yellowstone supervolcano is one of the largest active volcanoes on Earth, and now a new study suggests that its magma ...

Scientists uncover how underground mantle winds create and control powerful supervolcano eruptions like Yellowstone.

For decades, geochemists have used the different varieties of lead as a kind of infallible geological clock to date the formation of rocks and understand the processes of planetary accretion that ...