The lava world 55 Cancri e doesn’t have an atmosphere of vaporized rock after all, according to recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A recent study suggests that 55 Cancri e — a ...

What can lava planets, rocky exoplanets that are tidally locked and orbit so close to their stars that the intense heat melts the surface, teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution?

Lava planets don’t play by the rules of our solar system. These scorching-hot worlds, some no bigger than Earth, orbit so close to their stars that a full year lasts less than a day. With their ...

Mother Earth is putting on a fiery show! The planet's newest volcano has decided to steal the spotlight, erupting in grand ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it's turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

If Earth had an evil twin, it might look something like the recently-discovered lava-Earth HD 63433d. HD 63433d is a rocky world almost exactly the same size as our Earth, orbiting a star almost ...

Radar images of the surface of Venus appear to show fresh lava flows, suggesting active volcanoes on the planet. Scientists from Italy's International Research School of Planetary Sciences wrote in an ...

Artistic illustration of the internal structure of a lava planet in a cold state, showing a day‑side magma ocean overlain by a mineral atmosphere. The arrows indicate the direction of heat transport ...