A new SwRI-led paper highlights the scientific progress made in understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets, including the effects of late large impacts on pre-existing modes of tectonics. For ...

Exoplanet L98-59d, located far beyond our solar system, might not sound like someone’s dream destination. It likely has an underground ocean of magma, a surface temperature that reaches around 3,500 ...

The researchers recreate the extreme conditions that can be found inside planets using two-story 6,000-ton uniaxial ...

Geologically, Mars is very reminiscent of the moon. But it also looks a lot like the Earth. It all depends on who you ask. Current understanding of Mars' evolution is based on spacecraft measurements ...

For some time, astronomers have theorized that there is a connection between planetary mass and rotation. In the solar system ...

For over 50 years, Cornell has made astronomical contributions in the ongoing efforts to explore and understand the mysterious inner workings of Earth’s rust-colored neighbor, Mars. In honor of these ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...