A new study suggests that structures at the core-mantle boundary are remnants of an early basal magma ocean linked to Earth's ...

The loss of the magma played a crucial role in the moon's landscape formation. There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing lunar ...

1800 miles underground lies a mysterious zone between the Earth’s mantle and core. Nobody is quite sure what’s down there, but new evidence suggests the area reaches temperatures of 7000 degrees ...

Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was — probably — one big ocean of magma. Geologists who study this primordial Earth use models, experimental simulations, and even samples from the Moon to figure ...

Prior research suggested that after a giant rock slammed into Earth to form the moon some 4.5 billion years ago, a magma ocean covered most of Earth's surface. Prior research suggested that after a ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ancient moon may have had a gooey interior: A new study suggests that some 4 billion years ...

Billions of years ago, parts of Greenland were a molten sea, a sharp contrast to the pale-blue ice seen there today. Researchers have now found isotope signatures of that burbling, primordial Earth in ...

In August 2023, India became the fourth nation to successfully soft-land on the Moon, putting a lander close to the lunar South Pole, an area of great interest for future human exploration.

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 ...

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 discovery, described in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The rotation of the newborn Earth may have helped to control the evolution of a giant magma ocean ...