"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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

An artist’s impression of the planet Janssen (orange circle), which orbits its star so closely that its entire surface is a lava ocean that reaches temperatures of around 2,000 degrees Celsius.