Scientists discover that large amounts of nitrogen could be hidden in the Earth's metallic core, which would solve a ...

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

Even in the least conducive circumstances for a deep magma ocean, one still formed. The findings suggest that the main structure of the planet formed very early in its history, Boukaré said.

Even if a magma ocean is confirmed, “there are still a lot of uncertainties associated with trying to understand Io’s interior structure,” Tuttle Keane says.

During their formation, Mars and many other rocky planets went through similar magma ocean stages. However, because this all occurred in the distant past for Earth and Mars—and in distant space ...

The asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago appears to have caused huge amounts of magma to spew out of the bottom of the ocean, a new study of seafloor data finds.

The range of anorthosite ages -- over 200 million years -- is difficult to reconcile with an ocean of essentially liquid magma whose characteristic solidification time is close to 100 million years.

There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing lunar soil that revealed ancient information about the moon's origin. The study of ...

CHICAGO — An entire ocean of liquid magma, or maybe a hot heart of solid metal, may lurk in Io’s underworld.. The surface of Jupiter’s innermost moon is covered in scorching lava lakes and ...

The lunar magma ocean model was first conceived following the return of samples from the Apollo 11 mission. That mission landed in an area dominated by dark basaltic rock (think of the stuff ...

The range of anorthosite ages – over 200 million years – is difficult to reconcile with an ocean of essentially liquid magma whose characteristic solidification time is close to 100 million years.