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

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

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

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

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

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

Earth likely formed from inner Solar System material alone, raising fresh questions about the origin of water on our planet.

To understand how the Earth formed, you might want to start with thinking about your breakfast.

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun, rather than a single disc ...

Billions of years ago, in the giant disk of dust, gas, and rocky material that orbited our young sun, larger and larger bodies coalesced to eventually give rise to the planets, moons, and asteroids we ...