For decades, scientists have pieced together the moon’s history using samples from its near side, collected during NASA’s Apollo missions. But then in May 2024, China’s Chang’e 6 mission touched down ...

"It's a planet that shouldn't exist," said Vivien Parmentier, a researcher at the Observatory of Côte d'Azur. Hot clouds of molten titanium Exoplanet LTT9779 b was first spotted in 2020 ...

Astronomers were recently able to map the temperature of 55 Cancri E — a Super-Earth 40 light-years away — and discovered half the planet is almost completely molten. Follow Tech Insider ...

So how did our planet end up with such a special moon? The answer is that, surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our ...

The study reveals powerful winds carrying iron, sodium, and titanium across its skies. The planet, WASP-121b, lies about 900 light-years away. A Scorching Planet with Extreme Weather WASP-121b ...

WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, is located about 900 light-years from Earth. This planet has a unique feature: it is tidally locked to its star, meaning one side is constantly exposed to stellar heat, ...

MIT spinout Boston Metal has powered up its electricity driven steel production reactor and made over a ton of metal in a ...

below the planet's surface. The next layer, the mantle, stretches about 1,800 miles (2,900km) below Earth's surface. The mantle contains both magma, or molten rock, and slowly-moving solid rock.

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

The third planet from the sun ... Beyond the outer core lies the mantle, a 1,800-mile-thick layer of viscous molten rock on which Earth's outermost layer, the crust, rests. On land, the ...

On Earth, a compass needle aligns with our planet’s geomagnetic field, which is generated by the movement of molten iron in Earth’s outer core. This strong, bullet-shaped global magnetic field extends ...