Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...

Scientists have seemingly settled long-standing arguments about whether the components of Earth originated from the inner or ...

Little pieces of the 4.5 billion-year-old Asteroid Bennu are saying a whole lot about the history of the solar system. As the first asteroid samples to return to the U.S. for research, particles from ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...

Planets around other stars can help answer one of the greatest mysteries: How did we get here? How did the spinning disk of material left behind by our sun’s birth form our planet and its seven ...