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

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

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

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

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

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...