An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

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In this work, we extensively investigate the formation of near 4:2:1 mean motion resonances (MMRs) configuration by performing two sets of N-body simulations. We model the eccentricity damping, gas ...

Our solar system is only one out of hundreds of stellar systems residing in the Milky Way galaxy. It’s comprised of the Sun and eight known planets, half of which are Terrestrial (sporting solid, ...

Atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets has thus far been limited to ground-based observations of young, self-luminous, Jovian planets. Near-term space- and ground- based facilities ...

The thunderstorms rumbling on Jupiter are teaching scientists new things about the largest planet in the solar system. A Nature Communications paper published on May 23, found that lightning processes ...

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SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) – Jupiter is the largest and one of the most mysterious planets in the solar system. It’s 1,300 times the size of Earth, and never seems to behave the way scientists predict.