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In my pottery, my mind has focused subconsciously or consciously on natural phenomena. As a potter who works with fire as his partner and as one of the tools for the creative process, my interest in ...

Tides flowing in a subsurface ocean of molten rock, or magma, could explain why Jupiter’s moon Io appears to have its volcanoes in the “wrong” place. New NASA research implies that oceans beneath the ...

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in our Solar System, with around 400 volcanoes and extensive lava flows spread across its surface – but contrary to what scientists thought, a ...

Numerous V-shaped ridges about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) long and up to more than 1,600 feet (500 meters) high rise up from the North Atlantic Ocean floor between Greenland and Iceland. "These ...

The planet's oceanic crust has been shaped over hundreds of millions of years by volcanic activity - but much of this volcanic system is hidden below the seafloor. Magma moves and solidifies to add ...

The loss of the magma played a crucial role in the moon's landscape formation. There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing lunar ...

Io, one of Jupiter’s Galilean satellites, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Images from spacecraft have shown molten lava erupting along walls that dam giant lava lakes and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New model suggests an ocean of magma formed within the first few hundred million years of Earth's ...

Teresa Ubide receives funding from The University of Queensland, the Queensland Government and the Australian Research Council. The volcanoes we see on Earth’s surface are just the tip of the iceberg.