"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

A planet’s magnetic field is essential for protecting life, and many of these planets were thought to have no such field. Now ...

Studies reveal that beneath seemingly tranquil mountains, magma boils in shallow layers, reducing volcanic warning time.

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to the creation of a planet’s magnetic fields, which protect the entire planet ...

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

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 ...

Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a ...