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 ...

Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale ...

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 gored by ...

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Io does not have a shallow global magma ocean beneath its surface, counter to previous claims, suggests a paper published in Nature. Observations from NASA's Juno spacecraft, combined with ...

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.

In less than a year since India's historic landing on the south pole of the moon, the nation's Chandrayaan-3 mission is already providing scientists back on Earth with data shedding light on the lunar ...

There are a lot of theories about how the moon formed, including one where the Earth collided with another planet and the moon was created from the debris. However, in competition is another massive ...

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...