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, and Mars ...

Ow - that hurts! Despite an optimistic forecast, the sky was overcast in the Duluth, Minn. region for this morning's lunar eclipse. At 6 a.m. the moon shined brightly enough through thin clouds to ...

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress in advancing the understanding of the formation and evolution of the inner ...

Mars is a fascinating planet in our solar system. Over the years, space organizations have done a great deal of work to further explore Mars, including projects to get crews to the red planet. Mars ...

The rotation rates of giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) are significantly faster than those of terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars). Determining the rotation rates of giant ...

Formation of the solar system in two different planetary populations: the inner rocky planets formed earlier than the outer gas and ice giants. (Illustration: Mark A. Garlick / markgarlick.com) ...

Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the cooling and transfer of heat from terrestrial planetary interiors and how that affects the generation of the volcanic terrains that dominate the ...

Artistic concept of the PDS 70 disk. JWST observations detected water in the inner disk, where normally terrestrial planets form. Two gas giant planets carved a wide gap in the disk made of gas and ...