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

A new analysis of meteorite isotopes challenges long-held ideas about Earth’s origins, suggesting our planet may have formed ...

Earth may have won a cosmic chemistry lottery. Researchers found that during the planet’s earliest formation, oxygen had to be in an extremely narrow “Goldilocks zone” for two life-essential elements, ...

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

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

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

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the ...

Geoscientists have long relied on different forms of lead to understand Earth's geological history and how it was created ...