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 ...
In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to the creation of a planet’s magnetic fields, which protect the entire planet ...
Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock sit just above Earth’s core, hot, dense and stubbornly different from ...
Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a ...
A layer of molten rock deep inside some rocky planets may be doing more than shaping their interiors. New research points to ...
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Massive super Earths could have powerful magnetic shields thanks to their magma (and that’s good for life)
Super-Earths are the galaxy’s “middle children.” They are beefier than Earth but smaller than gas giants like Neptune. We ...
Material from the crater can "tell the story of the late evolution of the lunar magma ocean," scientists say. A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and ...
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...
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