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

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

For many years, scientists believed that Earth was built from a mix of materials coming from both the inner and outer parts ...

The glowing atmosphere of a strangely giant alien world could help solve mysteries of not just how it formed, but how our own solar system arose, scientists say. The exoplanet discovery comes from the ...

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

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

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

Philae landed on Comet 67P last November ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 In a shock discovery, Rosetta scientists have found oxygen in the gas cloud around comet 67/P, which they say challenges ...

A star some 450 light years away was found to have dust and gas rings It led scientists to revisit a solar system formation theory from the 1700s The study opened new possibilities for astronomers to ...

A binary star system is made up of two stars rotating around each other, trapped in a complex dance guided by their gravitational pull. But astronomers have discovered an even more complex kind of ...