How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Mercury is the smallest terrestrial planet in the solar system, about a third the size of Earth. It has a thin atmosphere, which causes it to swing between burning and freezing temperatures.

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress ...

It is one of only four "terrestrial" planets or moons—those with solid bodies, as opposed to those made largely of gas, like Jupiter and Saturn—that has a substantial atmosphere. The other ...

A terrestrial planet is large enough to form a secondary atmosphere but is typically too small, and orbiting within high-temperature regions close to the sun, to form planetary ring systems like ...

Best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence of carbon dioxide in their atmospheres. Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and ...

and being able to spot atmospheres on similar terrestrial planets is an important step in the search for life beyond the Solar System. The planet investigated by JWST, called 55 Cancri e ...

It is one of only four "terrestrial" planets or moons—those with solid bodies, as opposed to those made largely of gas, like Jupiter and Saturn—that has a substantial atmosphere. The other ...