Half Of All Rocky Planets Are Strange ‘Burning Worlds’ Of Lava, Say Scientists
Illustration of the planet 55 Cancri e, also called Janssen. getty The search for exoplanets—worlds that orbit stars other than our sun—may be focused on discovering another Earth, but it continues to reveal just how bizarre our galaxy’s population of worlds really is. It’s also underlining just how untypical our solar system is. Large lava …
