In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

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

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

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

A layer of molten rock deep inside some rocky planets may be doing more than shaping their interiors. New research points to ...

The discovery helped to show why the red planet’s core is not as large as earlier estimates had suggested it might be. By Robin George Andrews In 2021, it seemed as if Mars had a surprisingly big ...

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 ...

Mars’ interior is harboring a huge secret. New analyses of seismic data from NASA’s InSight lander reveal that concealed beneath the Red Planet’s surface is a vast radioactive ocean of magma reaching ...