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An AI-generated image illustrating the concept of a geothermal plant drilling into a volcano’s magma chamber. An initiative that sounds a lot like Jules Verne‘s Journey to the Center of the Earth could open a new frontier in geothermal energy by deliberately drilling into magma, the molten rock beneath Earth’s surface.

A tourist at Masaya Volcano. (INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images) Thousands of tourists come to check out the 'Mouth of Hell', a lava lake inside Masaya Volcano, each month, and millions more people live nearby. Given how many people are on and around this well-and-truly active volcano, scientists are keeping a very close eye on what it's up to. Now, it appears two reservoirs of magma lurking within the volcano are active at the same time. Those are the findings presented in Geophysical Research Letters by a team from Pennsylvania State University, based on Sentinel-1 satellite radar images taken roughly every 12 days for six years. The volcano's famous lava lake is just a small surface feature of the much larger volcano complex, which researchers are still trying to understand, so they can better understand what risks face nearby residents and the droves of tourists that come through daily. Around 2 million people live in close proximity to the volcano. Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua, is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) away.

NASA released photos of a glowing, jellyfish-shaped formation created when exhaust plumes from the SpaceX CRS-35 cargo mission caught the sun's rays.

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Powerful dishes isolate a distant planetary signal A research team led by Kevin N. Ortiz Ceballos analyzed four observing sessions conducted between February 2025 and May 2026. They used the 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa to scan the young Beta Pictoris star system.