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 ...

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 and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner solar system; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originated beyond Jupiter's orbit. A group of ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the ...

LONDON — A long-lost planet that helped create the Moon may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists once thought, according to new research. Scientists have discovered that Theia, the ...

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