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

Astronomers have identified two giant planets forming within the disc of a young star. The observation offers a rare glimpse ...

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

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

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

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

In this study, NRM measurements suggest that the observed characteristics of Ryugu particles is a chemical remanent magnetization, likely acquired during growth of framboidal magnetite that occurred ...

Planetary scientists led by Paolo Sossi have determined that Earth assembled almost entirely from material originating in the ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...