The team believes accessing such subterranean magma would take a similar approach to that of geothermal energy production — ...

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

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 ...

If Earth had an evil twin, it might look something like the recently-discovered lava-Earth HD 63433d. HD 63433d is a rocky world almost exactly the same size as our Earth, ... what it’s made of.

Exoplanets — that is, planets we know exist outside of our own Solar System — come in all shapes, sizes, and personalities. Some are super … ...

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 lava world 55 Cancri e doesn’t have an atmosphere of vaporized rock after all, according to recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A recent study suggests that 55 Cancri e ...

He said lava tubes provide ideal shelter from the intense conditions of space. "On the lunar surface , you get 13.8 days of sunlight, then 13.8 days of night—with temperatures ranging from 130 ...

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.

Early Earth was a hellscape of molten lava and barren rock, bombarded by meteors, with no atmosphere at all. ... The first time it has ever been made in significant amounts on Earth.

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 ...

There are even some lava fountains that can create lots of volcanic ash (volcanic glass fragments). This is what happens at volcanoes like Etna, so the airports on Sicily frequently have to close due ...