The strange histories of water-rich lava planets

Sep 13, 2025
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Lava planets like 55 Cancri e, or Janssen, are pretty strange in their own right, but some of them may be the exposed cores of planets that used to be gas or ice giants.

LINK TO STUDY: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16421

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