A new study from the University of Florida analyzing moon rock samples from a Chinese lunar exploration mission is rewriting ...

Journal Reference: Chloé Michaut, Jerome A. Neufeld. Formation of the Lunar Primary Crust From a Long‐Lived Slushy Magma Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 2022; 49 (2) DOI: 10.1029/2021GL095408 ...

The moon may have formed after a giant Mars-size rock hit a magma-covered newborn Earth, a new study finds. Earth came together about 4.5 billion years ago, and previous research suggested the ...

Following a short break for the July 4th holiday, Perseverance drove westward to a site called "Westport," where the ...

University of Washington. "Studying magma formation beneath Mount St. Helens." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 18 June 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 06 / 140618163918.htm>.

Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole ...

More information: K. G. Kislyakova et al. Magma oceans and enhanced volcanism on TRAPPIST-1 planets due to induction heating, Nature Astronomy (2017). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-017-0284-0 ...

But this formation is also unlikely to cause a volcanic eruption in the park because a lot of pressure needs to build up to erupt rhyolitic magma. The sort of massive upheaval required to cause ...

LONDON — The young moon may have been a magma "mush" for hundreds of millions of years before it solidified, a scientist says. The idea, presented at a recent Royal Society conference focusing ...

More than half of the world’s critical mineral resources formed in ancient volcanic systems. When exploring for mineral ...

News Release 11-Nov-2022 Magma floods erupt from deeper sources than earlier believed Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Helsinki ...

Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole ...