This comes after they re-examined Venus’ Ovda Regio highlands plateau, which they believe was made up of basaltic lava. “We know so little about Venus’ surface,” said the study's co-author ...

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

The researchers who made the discovery believe this means the planet would appear more like Venus than like Earth, with a hot and dry landscape and rivers of glowing lava.

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 ...

A distant “super-Earth” with a lava-covered surface that is constantly burning is about to be glimpsed by scientists for the first time. NASA says its James Webb Space Telescope is “just ...

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.

Scientists have discovered new details about a hellish lava planet light-years away from Earth that is unbearably hot, rains rocks and has lava oceans more than 60 miles deep.

The earth may open up and we all fall into the water. But it’s impossible to leave.” Friends in Hilo, about 20 miles north of here, have taken in Begaye and his partner.

Computer models of the giant-impact scenario often say that 70% to 90% of the moon should be made of material from Theia. The problem is that most bodies in the solar system have unique chemical ...

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.

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 ...