Earth's climate, mantle, and core interact over geologic time scales. Climate influences
whether plate tectonics can take place on a planet, with cool climates being favorable for …

Recent planetary space missions, new experimental data, and advanced numerical
techniques have helped to improve our understanding of the deep interiors of the terrestrial …

The search for life in the Universe is a fundamental problem of astrobiology and modern
science. The current progress in the detection of terrestrial-type exoplanets has opened a …

Radial velocity measurements of stellar reflex motion have revealed many extrasolar
planets, but gaps in the observations produce aliases, spurious frequencies that are …

We performed ab initio molecular dynamics simulations for pressures and temperatures from
300–5000 GPa and 3000–30 000 K in order to determine the equation of state of solid and …

The detection of moons orbiting extrasolar planets (“exomoons”) has now become feasible.
Once they are discovered in the circumstellar habitable zone, questions about their …

The internal thermal and magnetic evolution of rocky exoplanets is critical to their
habitability. We focus on the thermal-orbital evolution of Earth-mass planets around low …

We study the thermal evolution of super-Earths with a one-dimensional (1D) parameterized
convection model that has been adopted to account for a strong pressure dependence of the …

The magnetic fields of planets and stars are thought to play an important role in the fluid
motions responsible for their field generation, as magnetic energy is ultimately derived from …

Intrinsic magnetic fields have long been thought to shield planets from atmospheric erosion
via stellar winds; however, the influence of the plasma environment on atmospheric escape …