At the Venice Biennale, a project by Icelandic firm s.ap arkitektar envisions the year 2150, when buildings and cities made ...

Deep within the Earth’s mantle, rhythmic pulses of hot lava are emerging on the surface, offering a rare glimpse into the forces driving the creation of a new ocean. These pulses, coming from a ...

Natural phenomena never cease to amaze people as they unfold. The advance in the study of this type of situation makes the ...

What does an ancient lava tube in the Canary Islands have in common with space exploration? For our robotics teams, it turns out, quite a lot. A small group of our researchers traveled to ...

HD 63433d is a rocky world almost exactly the same size as our Earth, orbiting a star so close that instead of watery oceans, it is enveloped by seas of lava.

Is there anything more spectacular than a towering lava fountain? Think about what it is: glowing red molten rock being shot into the sky, potentially hundreds or thousands of feet. As ubiquitous and ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far.

The result is a world with a lava-covered surface on one side and a hardened crust on the other, but observations made by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that the otherwise hostile planet ...

The planet's inside may or may not be made of diamonds, but its atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide.

Reaching Closer to Earth’s Core, One Lava Scoop at a Time A 2021 eruption in Iceland gave researchers rare and illuminating access to the mantle, one of the Earth’s layers.

See how Earth transformed from a barren hellscape to a planet capable of sustaining life. Early Earth was a hellscape of molten lava and barren rock, bombarded by meteors, with no atmosphere at ...

Astronomers have discovered an unusual Earth-sized exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its other hemisphere tidally locked in perpetual darkness. Co-authors and study ...