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Form Time | Science | Theory of knowledge | Geography

Astronomers find ‘hellish’ lava planet

Sulphurous surprise: Astronomers once thought planet L98-59d was a watery paradise, but new data reveals a hellish world of magma oceans and the stench of rotten eggs.

Is the universe the greatest mystery of all? Analysis of a planet 205 trillion miles from Earth has shown it to be different from every other kind that we know about.