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

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

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

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 ...

Microscopic evidence reveals how cooling magma chambers were recharged by fresh volcanic injections 2.5 billion years ago to ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...