Definition: A terrestrial planet refers to a planet (celestial body) that is made up of silicate rocks or metals. Description: The term terrestrial is derived from the Latin word 'terra', which means ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

These rocky bits eventually coalesced to form the terrestrial planets. However, at a distance of around 4 astronomical units from the Sun (AU; 1 AU is the average Sun-Earth distance of 93 million ...

2005). Together with increased precipitation and freshwater discharge (Peterson et al., 2002; McClelland et al., 2006; Adakudlu et al., 2019), the thawing terrestrial cryosphere is expected to lead to ...

Because many close-matching simulations had the planet-like object swooping through the inner solar system, the researchers created an additional 10,000 simulations including the terrestrial ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile, dubbed ATLAS, came across the space rock while observing the ...

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

The irony is that they're so far away. "K2-22b has an asymmetric transit profile, as the planet's dusty cloud of effluents comes into view in front of the star, showing evidence of extended tails like ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Special attention will be given to manuscripts addressing the strategies, techniques, and indicators for restoring terrestrial forests, rangelands ... In line with our mission to promote healthy lives ...