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 ...

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

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 ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...