Researchers are developing a new technique to help visualize the complex internal layering and anomalous structures inside planetary bodies, including the Moon. Credit: NGC 54/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 ...

Scientists have discovered that deep inside planets like Neptune, Uranus, and even distant exoplanets, extreme conditions can cause hydrogen and water to mix and later separate—creating an internal ...

Sabine’s research involves understanding planetary interior processes and evolution. She focuses on planetary magnetic fields, dynamo theory, interior structure models and other geophysical methods to ...

When a planet is born from swirling pockets of molecular gas and dust that surround a young star, it forms under conditions of intense gravity and pressure. The process is violent, the first stages of ...

The intensely hot interior of planets isn’t somewhere you’d expect to find snow, but scientists do suspect that “iron snow” falls on the Earth’s core. Now, a new study has modeled the dynamics in the ...

TEMPE, Ariz. — In a laboratory shrouded by heavy black curtains hung with danger signs, scientists are conjuring the scorching-hot, high-pressure conditions inside planets. To start, they squeeze tiny ...

David Rothery is co-leader of the European Space Agency's Mercury Surface and Composition Working Group, and a Co-Investigator on MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer) that is now on its way to ...

Earth as we know it offers majestic trees, meandering streams, and rolling hills. Yet below the Earth's surface, forces and elements like intense pressure and scalding magma simmer and stew—and make ...

A distant world may have formed inside a doomed star. This star was ripped apart by its smaller, denser companion – a dense stellar corpse called a white dwarf – and the planet could have formed from ...

Austin (KXAN) — A tiny baby planet is making waves in the science community. Named WISPIT 2b, the growing planet is the first planet of its kind to be basically photographed growing inside its star’s ...

A new type of black hole has the entire science community talking. This black hole can supposedly consume an entire extrasolar planet (exoplanet), something that researchers have never seen before.