When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

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There’s a planet that might just resemble hell, littered with a miles-deep magma ocean. It’s known as K2-141b, a “lava planet” that revolves so closely around its host star that its surface is, well, ...