These analyses have revealed varying estimates of Mercury's polar moment of inertia and its Love number, which are crucial for understanding the planet's internal composition and behavior under ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system developed with gas giants far from our sun, some planetary systems consist of ...

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun ... "The vast majority of our atmospheric composition analysis is due to alignments," she says. Much grander alignments can let us probe the distant Universe ...

YR4 has a one per cent chance of hitting Earth in December 2032. The European Space Agency is closely monitoring the minor planet. Although the asteroid's composition is not yet known, it is estimated ...

Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet ...

"These planets are literally spilling their guts into space for us, and with JWST, we finally have the means to study their composition ... and no access to that of Mercury, Venus, or Mars ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

Choosing high-protein snacks can keep you full between meals, support blood sugar regulation, and promote a healthy body ...

A little over 500 light years away from Earth is an immense planet astronomers have named ... or just over 10 per cent of the distance of Mercury from the Sun. (NASA's Eyes on the Solar System ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet ... better ...