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Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress in advancing the understanding of the formation and evolution of the inner ...

ZURICH, Switzerland — In our quest to answer whether we’re alone in the universe, astronomers are preparing for a major advancement: new space telescopes capable of scanning distant worlds for signs ...

How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a pair of scientists from the Southwest Research ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Planetary scientists are split, oscillating between two main theories that explain the order in ...

Preface / Larry W. Esposito, Ellen R. Stofan, and Thomas E. Cravens -- Exploring Venus : major scientific issues and directions / Larry W. Esposito, Ellen R. Stofan, and Thomas E. Cravens -- ...

Snapshots from six computer simulations illustrating the distinct tectonic regimes of terrestrial planets, including the newly discovered “episodic-squishy lid” regime. This framework provides a new ...

How could terrestrial living organisms withstand the hostile environments of other planets? To answer this question, a ...

Astronomers have discovered a doomed, disintegrating planet with a comet-like tail that is shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material each time it orbits its star. The small, rocky world—given the ...