May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
... and technical needs. LPI has a long tradition of organising interdisciplinary study projects, from Basaltic Volcanism in the Terrestrial Planets (1976) to New Views of the Moon 2 (2023). These projects have produced influential books and shaped new...
29 March 2016
To build super-Earths near host star 'dead zones' are required say researchers
... million years of the birth of the Sun and while the giant planets were quick to evolve from material accreted from the gas disk, terrestrial planets formed long after the gas disk was dispersed, on a timescale of around...
04 December 2019
Giant planet found orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
...over when the terrestrial planets disappear. As gruesome as this might seem, white dwarfs can still host planets, and many ... now, scientists had never found evidence of a surviving giant planet around a white dwarf. “It was one of those chance ...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... that are dedicated to exoplanet science,” Isaak said. Those other missions include Plato, that is aimed at studying terrestrial planets in orbits up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars, and Ariel. Scheduled for launch around 2028, Ariel...
13 January 2020
New study shows a split Solar System that kickstarted growth of Jupiter
... of pebble accreting material from the outer Solar System zones reaching the inner zone where the terrestrial planets grew, say Brasser and Mojzsis. This ring not only created the NC-CC dichotomy as it kept the carbonaceous...
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
... goes for finding planets based on emissions from magnetic fields. Even though terrestrial planets are more commonly ... not prone to too many destructive outbursts, this bodes well for planet’s where life is trying to get established. “Based on the ...
