Lava planets, which have one face perpetually turned toward their star and heated to temperatures capable of melting rock, offer a unique natural laboratory for exploring the interactions ...

Four billion years ago, the surface of the Earth was a battleground of chaos lava flows, meteorite impact, and tectonic writhing constantly destroyed new skin of the planet. But in all this geologic ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

The company reports final lab results – including re-assays for samples that exceeded the scale – for the first series of 23 ...