There are two types of terrestrial planets - solar terrestrial planets and extra-solar terrestrial planets. Solar terrestrial planets refer to the first four planets in the solar system, i.e, Mercury, ...

NASA has captured a breathtaking image of Venus, the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest in our solar system. Known as the hottest planet, Venus holds the title for the highest ...

Nobody knows how life began on Earth, but some tantalizing clues from an asteroid suggest it might not have started here.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

The risk of Earth being hit by an asteroid will be the topic of an open house Sunday evening at the Indiana University ...

Feb. 25, 2025 — On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed ...

Researchers led by Dr. Maura Brunetti at the University of Geneva studied fossilized plant remains, using spores, pollen, and ...

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

The Early Career Scientists (ECS) team of the Solar-Terrestrial (ST) division of the European Geophysical Union (EGU) is organizing a campfire, where Dr. Florian Koller, Queen Mary University of ...