Planetary scientists Paolo Sossi and Dan Bower from ETH Zurich have published a peer-reviewed study in Nature Astronomy ...

A new analysis of meteorite isotopes challenges long-held ideas about Earth’s origins, suggesting our planet may have formed ...

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

The chemical composition of meteorites and asteroids acts as a kind of fingerprint, providing information about the origin of ...

When the solar system was first organizing itself, a disk of gas and dust took shape around the sun's central mass. It eventually sorted itself into the system of planets we see today. But there are ...

Generations of scientists have tried to explain how the solar system began. None of the explanations is wholly adequate. The trouble is that the solar system is not a haphazard collection of planets ...