The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a distinct and very different composition? This diversity stems from a ...

With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometers), our planet Earth is the biggest of the terrestrial planets and ...

At the very beginning of its history, Earth was dry. How did it become a blue planet? A new theory could provide an answer.

Because many close-matching simulations had the planet-like object swooping through the inner solar system, the researchers created an additional 10,000 simulations including the terrestrial ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

The research reveals that high-mass planets—or in other words, terrestrial planets—tend to form around stars with higher [Fe/H] and younger stars compared to low mass. Similarly, those with a ...

"I wanted to create the dashboard because there currently isn't a go-to place to see which types of planets are being observed by JWST and answering questions like: 'How many terrestrial planets ...

"It's a remarkable and fortuitous opportunity to understand terrestrial planet interiors," he added. The Penn State team trained JWST's spectrograph at K2-22, a star discovered by the Kepler ...

My research focuses on terrestrial planets and moons. I am particularly interested in polar ice caps and their interactions with planetary atmospheres. For example, the polar deposits of Mars record ...