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

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

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

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

Theories around the formation of Earth have just been challenged by researchers from ETH Zurich. For a long time, the general idea saw our planet forming from a mixture of local planetesimals – the ...

Learn how subduction zones become enriched in gold through repeated melting of Earth's mantle.

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

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, according to new research. The Ohio State University study's results ...

How can the metal content of stars influence the formation of Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of ...