"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

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

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 ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...