The rocky world, known as 55 Cancri e or its nickname 'Janssen', orbits its star so closely that a year lasts just 18 hours and has a surface that resembles a deep lava ocean. It is thought that ...

A cross-section of the lobate lava formations reveals ... The discovery of giant creatures in the Earth’s crust beneath the ...

Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered giant worms reproducing deep beneath ... 19 inches (50 cm), were found nestled beneath solidified lava slabs along the East Pacific Rise. They identified two ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

The volcano is thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface, so it poses no danger to people. But under all that water, a ...

Lava formation is seen in ... and Atmospheric Administration. A giant tubeworm is seen on the seafloor surface at 2,500 meters deep in the Pacific Ocean. ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute ...

Unfortunately, this promising candidate is also tidally locked and has one side so hot that it's one giant sea of lava. One of the ... to be one huge molten ocean. What the nightside is like ...

Giant worms appear to be breeding ... critters sandwiched beneath slabs of solidified lava along the East Pacific Rise, a fast-spreading ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet off the ...

Scientists have discovered giant mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean around 250 miles off the coast of Guinea-Bissau, a country in west Africa. Made of mud and sand, these massive ...

There are a lot of animals living on the seabed that seem strange to us on land. Giant isopods can live 500 metres or more below the ocean surface. But these 14-legged goliaths are relatives of the ...

Giant cliffs that encircle Olympus Mons formed when lava flowing down the volcano encountered ... once been a volcanic island surrounded by an ocean nearly 4 miles (6km) deep, according to ...

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