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

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

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

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

The Earth and moon have been locked in a gravitational dance for billions of years. Each day, as the Earth turns, the moon tugs upon the oceans of the world, causing the rise and fall of tides. As a ...

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 ...

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 ...