Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale ...

Previous research estimated that it took hundreds of million years for the ancient Earth's magma ocean to solidify, but new research narrows these large uncertainties down to less than just a couple ...

There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing lunar soil that revealed ancient information about the moon's origin. The study of ...

Earths, vast underground oceans of molten rock may be quietly doing the work of life’s first line of defense: generating ...

A Hidden Ocean Beneath the Heat For anyone looking up at the night sky, the idea that water might form in the middle of a magma ocean feels almost poetic. It suggests that even within chaos and fire, ...

Researchers investigate the effects of oxygen content on the melting of mantle rocks and the formation of early Earth magma It is widely accepted that the early Earth largely consisted of molten magma ...

Material from the crater can "tell the story of the late evolution of the lunar magma ocean," scientists say. A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and ...

NASA and its rivals in China and elsewhere have long set their sights on the moon's south pole, where the presence of water ice would make deep space exploration possible. The team of Indian ...

Scientists have long theorized that the Moon was once covered by a vast ocean of molten rock. Now, new research based on samples from the far side of the Moon provides the strongest evidence yet that ...

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...

Early in the formation of Earth, an ocean of magma covered the planet’s surface and stretched thousands of miles deep into its core. The rate at which that “magma ocean” cooled affected the formation ...