Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...

Researchers found How Violent Events During Earth's Formation Led to the Scarcity of Moderately Volatile Elements (MVE) Like ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...

Astronomers have finally unlocked a crucial piece of the planet formation puzzle by detecting the magnetic fingerprint of a young star’s protoplanetary disk. Using ALMA, researchers observed how dust ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...

Understanding how and when Earth, Jupiter, other planets in the Solar System, and numerous exoplanets formed within our ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...