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

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond ...

Theories around the formation of Earth have just been challenged by researchers from ETH Zurich. For a long time, the general ...

The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge they have on planetary ...

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 ...

The chemical composition of meteorites and asteroids acts as a kind of fingerprint, providing information about the origin of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages ...

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

If you've ever wondered why we are here, then you can thank Jupiter for part of the answer. A new study from Rice University suggests that if it weren't for the gas giant, the Earth would have ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...