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98% of supposed water worlds may be lava planets hiding in plain sight
For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...
What can lava planets, rocky exoplanets that are tidally locked and orbit so close to their stars that the intense heat melts the surface, teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution?
When astronomers first cataloged some of the closest orbiting rocky exoplanets, they wrote them off as bare, airless cinders, worlds so close to their stars that any atmosphere should have been ...
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