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 ...

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 ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we still don’t know about it. One of these unsolved questions is its origin story. We think the moon ...

There's a new theory for how the Moon came to be that would solve some of the Giant Impact Hypothesis' issues. If Earth had a magma ocean on it already, a lot of problems work out. Share on Facebook ...

Shortly after it formed, the Moon was covered in a global ocean of molten rock (magma). As the magma ocean cooled and solidified, dense minerals sank to form the mantle layer, while less-dense ...

A lunar crater of planetary proportions, the South Pole-Aitken basin, is finally revealing the secrets of its violent birth. A meticulous reinterpretation of its morphology overturns the ...

Io, one of Jupiter’s Galilean satellites, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Images from spacecraft have shown molten lava erupting along walls that dam giant lava lakes and ...

In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth ...

Some predict the glaciers will vanish in two centuries, which could upset the volcanoes below, causing them to erupt more frequently, more violently or both ...