Small amounts of rocky materials are only found deep in the cores of Jovian planets. In the solar system, Jovian planets are located farther from the sun than terrestrial planets, and are ...

Narrator: As the solar system grew, four rocky planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, were created closest to the Sun. Made of rocks and metals, they have solid surfaces and a central core of ...

An international team of astronomers has detected a record-breaking planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The system is called ...

We study the ~4.5 billion year history of the terrestrial planets ... large-scale architecture of planets is imposed early in their history but is also susceptible to later modifications. In simple ...

In the case of Venus' apparent lack of a magnetosphere, there are four possibilities ... is transformed into a magnetic field," O'Rouke explained. "In terrestrial planets, metallic cores can host ...