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 ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

We study the ~4.5 billion year history of the terrestrial planets of our solar system, from the stellar synthesis of the elements of which they comprise through their accretion and re-organisation by ...

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 ...

The Sun’s gravity holds all of these objects together, and the gravitational forces between objects can cause less massive objects to orbit more massive objects. Most terrestrial planets have ...

Whether or not the evolution of the planets and moons in the Solar System is typical for their class of objects is still unknown. A key element of this research theme is the search for small, ...

Earth, Mercury and Jupiter's moon Ganymede all have internally generated magnetic ... into a magnetic field," O'Rouke explained. "In terrestrial planets, metallic cores can host dynamos, as ...