Lava oceans may not explain the brightness of some hot super-Earths
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 08:30
in Earth & Climate
Arguably some of the weirdest, most extreme planets among the more than 4,000 exoplanets discovered to date are the hot super-Earths—rocky, flaming-hot worlds that zing so precariously close to their host stars that some of their surfaces are likely melted seas of molten lava.