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 ...

Researchers may have discovered a “hidden defense” that could make distant “super-Earths” friendlier than we think. A new study suggests that oceans of molten rock deep within these distant planets ...

Scientists have long theorized that the Moon was once covered by a vast ocean of molten rock. Now, new research based on ...

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 strange middle category. .

If there's no magma ocean, where does the 'melt' come from that emerges from the volcanoes as lava? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...