Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

The eruption at Sundhnúkur in Iceland has been going for over 10 months and we're starting to understand how the magmatic ...

At the center of the large illuminated region there is an ocean of molten rock overlain by an atmosphere of rock vapour. Supersonic winds blow towards the frigid and airless nightside, condensing ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that a scorching hot lava planet, believed to be ...

The planet endured tough times during its star's death throes. "It may have been a lava planet when the star became a red giant, then eventually cooled down to its current freezing state," Zhang said.

There is a planet in the night sky that orbits its star in 18 hours, has a huge ocean of lava and a core made of diamonds. Welcome to 55 Cancri e—better known as the planet Janssen—whose ...

Illustration of the planet 55 Cancri e ... covered by a surface ocean of molten lava. Makes Mauna Loa seem almost minor league on the cosmic scale of volcanism. There’s a reason that we keep ...

In a landmark discovery for planetary science, researchers have found the first conclusive evidence of a volcanic spatter ...

The land around a strange volcano in Tanzania is bulging, suggesting magma may be accumulating in a shallow reservoir beneath the surface. The movement could be a precursor to an eruption ...

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