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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...