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

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

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

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 ...

Theories around the formation of Earth have just been challenged by researchers from ETH Zurich. For a long time, the general idea saw our planet forming from a mixture of local planetesimals – the ...

The sun, our nearest star, never stops breathing. Every second of every day, it exhales a vast stream of charged particles ...

A newly studied planetary system appears to break the expected order of worlds, revealing an unusual arrangement that current theories struggle to explain. “Many Vile Earthlings Munch Jam Sandwiches ...

The new science fiction film adaptation leans heavily on real science done by the National Aeronautics and Space ...

Astronomers have spotted a second planet taking shape from the material orbiting a young star — only the second such example ...

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

For many years, scientists believed that Earth was built from a mix of materials coming from both the inner and outer parts ...