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

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

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

Planetary scientists at ETH Zurich have shown that the material that makes up the Earth originates exclusively from the inner ...

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

Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their formation but ours managed to hit. A new study shows that Earth formed under ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

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

Billions of years ago, in the giant disk of dust, gas, and rocky material that orbited our young sun, larger and larger bodies coalesced to eventually give rise to the planets, moons, and asteroids we ...