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

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

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

Earth’s origin story has always had missing pages, from the chemistry of its first crust to the ingredients that seeded life. Now, a series of breakthroughs, from asteroid samples to ancient rocks ...

Meteorites and comets likely carried simple amino acid chains to early Earth, which led to the creation of life, scientists confirmed in a series of experiments. It is widely thought that organisms on ...

An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right). (Credit: Rayssa Martins/Ross Findlay) (CN) — ...