"This is a terrestrial planet that I would describe as Io ... with every inch of its surface covered in lava plains — yet it could be considered tame when compared to TOI-6713.01.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A new planet discovered by scientists has oceans of lava covering its surface.

And that noxious atmosphere is probably made of gas that escaped from bubbles in the super-hot lava that makes up the planet’s surface. According to Hu and his colleagues, the atmosphere is “a ...

New technology has allowed scientists to scan deep into the interior of planets in our solar system ... and found a large core underneath the surface. It did so in a similar way to an ultrasound ...

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 ...

At optical wavelengths you would be able to see a glowing, red-hot planet with a molten lava surface.” TOI-6713.01 has all of this volcanic activity in part because of its unusual orbit.

One way to find water worlds beyond our solar system could be to look for minerals — or more specifically, to study minerals mixed with cool lava on exoplanet surfaces. This is because if water ...