Oxygen-rich laboratory melts retained extra oxygen under pressure, revealing a possible transport mechanism within Earth.

Molten rock deep inside the Earth can carry far more oxygen than textbook chemistry allows, according to experiments led by ...

Scientists have discovered that magma deep inside Earth can store surprising amounts of extra oxygen, potentially revealing a ...

Deep beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, a massive magma reservoir is refilling 7,300 years after one of the most powerful ...

Earth hasn’t always been a blue and green oasis of life in an otherwise inhospitable solar system. During our planet’s first 50 million years, around 4.5 billion years ago, its surface was a hellscape ...

Molten rock deep inside Earth can take up an extra supply of oxygen under pressure, according to a new study. That finding ...

An illustration of Earth as it existed during part of its formation billions of years ago, when an ocean of magma covered the surface of the planet and stretched thousands of miles deep into the core.

The Earth and moon have been locked in a gravitational dance for billions of years. Each day, as the Earth turns, the moon tugs upon the oceans of the world, causing the rise and fall of tides. As a ...

New research led by the University of Cambridge has found rare evidence – preserved in the chemistry of ancient rocks from Greenland – which tells of a time when Earth was almost entirely molten. The ...

Schematic overview of the coupled atmosphere-interior evolution model. This model considers the diffusion of atmospheric H2 ...

Researchers have found that magma can store excess oxygen, suggesting ancient volcanic eruptions may have contributed to Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere billions of years ago.

Before Earth became the blue planet, it was engulfed by a very different kind of ocean: a vast, deep magma ocean reaching down hundreds or perhaps even thousands of kilometers. As early Earth's magma ...