NASA revealed recently that Mercury, the solar system’s tiniest planet and the closest to the sun has a layer of diamond 10 miles ... Earth by using a large-volume press to replicate the pressures and ...

Space exploration often reveals unexpected surprises. In June 2023, during its flyby of Mercury, the BepiColombo mission collected information about the planet's magnetic field. These observations ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

THE recent radar measurements of Mercury indicate that the period of rotation of the planet is 59 ± 5 days 1. This result is in complete disagreement with the previously quoted value of 88 days ...

The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...

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An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars – are all made of solid, rocky material, Jupiter is a gas giant with a composition similar t ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...