Map of rocky exoplanet reveals a lava world
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 12:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has obtained the most detailed 'fingerprint' of a rocky planet outside our solar system to date, and found a planet of two halves: one that is almost completely molten, and the other which is almost completely solid.