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 ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

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 ...

Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...

A rare planetary system has been discovered that mirrors the structure of our solar system, exoplanet formation, and gas ...