Planetary scientists Paolo Sossi and Dan Bower from ETH Zurich have published a peer-reviewed study in Nature Astronomy ...

Astronomers have identified two giant planets forming within the disc of a young star. The observation offers a rare glimpse ...

Planetary scientists led by Paolo Sossi have determined that Earth assembled almost entirely from material originating in the ...

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 ...

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

Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled–and fascinated–by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the ...

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

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun, rather than a single disc ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...