With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth ...

The large-scale architecture of planets is imposed early in their history but is also ... and abetted by the local expertise in experimental petrology provided by BEEST. Terrestrial mantle convection, ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Swirling around that fireball were particles that gathered into spherical clumps, whose gravitational fields attracted smaller clumps, and so on, eventually creating the four terrestrial planets ...

Most terrestrial planets have atmospheres, but the conditions on their surfaces would not allow humans to survive there. Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system (despite being further from ...

Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, this research shows how giant impacts, a key process in the formation of terrestrial planets ... is common in smaller-scale collisions.