A terrestrial planet, telluric planet, or rocky planet, is a planet that is composed primarily of silicate, rocks or metals. Within the Solar System,...

Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) was a proposed project by NASA to construct a system of space telescopes for detecting extrasolar terrestrial planets...

adjectives for the planet Earth. The word "earthly" is derived from "Earth". From the Latin Terra comes terran /ˈtɛrən/, terrestrial /təˈrɛstriəl/, and...

has eight planets by the most restrictive definition of the term: the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, and the giant planets Jupiter...

objects that orbit the Sun are the eight planets. In order from the Sun, they are four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars); two gas...

Potential terrestrial exoplanets List of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates List of potentially habitable exoplanets For a list of planets as used...

Look up terrestrial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial...

Towards a Classification System of Terrestrial Planets Out There: A Strange Zoo of Other Worlds SpaceEngine Planet Classifications A Planetary Classification...

example in the geography or composition of the planet) resembling an eyeball. They are terrestrial planets where liquids may be present, in which tidal...

Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is a terrestrial planet and is the closest in mass and size to its orbital neighbour Earth. Venus is notable...

communication, and the messenger of the gods. Mercury is classified as a terrestrial planet, with roughly the same surface gravity as Mars. The surface of Mercury...

telescope viewing. It is classified as a terrestrial planet and is the second smallest of the Solar System's planets with a diameter of 6,779 km (4,212 mi)...

astronomers search for extrasolar planets that may be conducive to life, narrowing the search to terrestrial planets within the habitable zones of their...

silicate rocks and/or metals. Within the Solar System, the terrestrial planets are the inner planets closest to the Sun. This list is incomplete, currently...

The geology of solar terrestrial planets mainly deals with the geological aspects of the four terrestrial planets of the Solar System – Mercury, Venus...

disproportionately large number of asteroids and comets collided into the terrestrial planets and their natural satellites in the inner Solar System, including...

A lava planet is a type of terrestrial planet, with a surface mostly or entirely covered by molten lava. Situations where such planets could exist include...

A desert planet, also known as a dry planet, an arid planet, or a dune planet, is a type of terrestrial planet with an arid surface consistency similar...

mergers between these planet-sized bodies allowed terrestrial planets to grow to their present sizes. When terrestrial planets were forming, they remained...

The presence of water on the terrestrial planets of the Solar System (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the closely related Earth's Moon) varies with each...

inner Solar System exciting the orbits of the terrestrial planets and the asteroids, leaving the planets' orbits too eccentric, and the asteroid belt with...

large planets close to their parent stars. At present,[when?] few systems have been found to be analogous to the Solar System with terrestrial planets close...

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (or simply E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison...

Planet V is a hypothetical fifth terrestrial planet posited by NASA scientists John Chambers and Jack J. Lissauer to have once existed between Mars and...

faint planet, but rather detecting a faint planet that is extremely close to a very bright star. For a terrestrial planet, the contrast ratio of planet to...

luminosity, stable variability, and high metallicity. Rocky, wet terrestrial-type planets and moons with the potential for Earth-like chemistry are a primary...

σφαίρα (sphaíra) 'sphere') is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite. On Earth, it is composed of the crust and the...

producing a few terrestrial planets. The last stage takes approximately 100 million to a billion years. The formation of giant planets is a more complicated...

the requisite character (i.e. a circumstellar habitable zone); a terrestrial planet of the right mass; the advantage of one or more gas giant guardians...

the grand tack hypothesis. The resulting formation timescales of terrestrial planets appear to be inconsistent with the measured elemental composition...