"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

The relative size of the inner planets of our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

The Earth’s inner core, composed mainly of solid iron and nickel, is one of the most enigmatic regions of the planet. It has long been known that the inner core rotates faster than the Earth’s ...

That part called the "inner" Oort cloud ... the galactic center, where most of the galaxy's mass is, affects large objects in our solar system. For the planets, this influence is drowned out ...

A bright light in the sky after sunset, Venus is the most obvious planet to the naked ... Something similar happens to Mercury, the other inner planet from Earth’s point of view.

Gravity is greater closer to the star. Most of the dense material in the dust cloud is attracted strongly and ends up here. The inner four planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) are rocky and ...