Models that inform how magma moves and volcanic eruptions unfold may need an update, according to a new study. It reports that gas bubbles in magmas ...

Victoria Auerbach is a fifth-year PhD candidate studying geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Researchers have discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets in our Milky Way. Of these, the sub-Neptune class, which are smaller ...

Since silicic magmas are colder and goopier than mafic magmas, dissolved gases have a harder time venting out of them. This ...

In the early chaos of planetary formation, before crusts cooled or atmospheres settled, water might already have been ...

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial ...

When an asteroid passing through the early solar system impacted the far side of our moon, it left behind the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin. The 1,200 by 1,000-mile crater was formed in an oblong ...