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 ...

Theories around the formation of Earth have just been challenged by researchers from ETH Zurich. For a long time, the general ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

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

A rare planetary system has been discovered that mirrors the structure of our solar system, exoplanet formation, and gas ...

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

(Nanowerk News) Paleomagnetic analysis of 28 particles from the asteroid Ryugu has provided the most detailed evidence yet of magnetic fields present in the early solar system. A research team led by ...