A new study suggests molten rock layers within massive exoplanets create powerful magnetic fields that can protect potential ...

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 ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

Earths, vast underground oceans of molten rock may be quietly doing the work of life’s first line of defense: generating ...

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 ...

An illustration of Earth as it existed during part of its formation billions of years ago, when an ocean of magma covered the surface of the planet and stretched thousands of miles deep into the core.

Researchers investigate the effects of oxygen content on the melting of mantle rocks and the formation of early Earth magma It is widely accepted that the early Earth largely consisted of molten magma ...

New research led by the University of Cambridge has found rare evidence – preserved in the chemistry of ancient rocks from Greenland – which tells of a time when Earth was almost entirely molten. The ...