Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn will appear in a row on the evening of 28 February, marking the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...