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

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, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known ...

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 ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

Most of us go through life assuming Earth’s place in the universe is secure. We picture our planet as a blue marble, peacefully orbiting the Sun in a cosmic dance that’s guaranteed to go on for ...

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