Earth’s earliest chapter is mostly gone. Rocks from the planet’s first few billion years have been eroded, buried, recycled, ...

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

The study, published in Science Advances, focuses on two elements that are essential for life as we know it: nitrogen and ...

Research suggests Earth received most of its phosphorus and nitrogen from nearby planetary building blocks, reshaping ...

A new analysis of Apollo samples and Earth rocks suggests that a nearby rocky planet, not a distant object, collided with early Earth and formed the moon. The study argues that this lost planet, Theia ...

Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner Solar System; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originated beyond Jupiter’s orbit. A group of ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence in a lunar rock of an impact powerful enough to melt vast regions of the Moon and leave ...

Binary asteroid systems are widespread throughout our inner solar system. For decades, the standard paradigm held that many ...

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary ...

A new study shows chemical compounds for life on Earth likely came from our inner solar system and not a distant comet or meteor and Jupiter played a part.

A new study suggests that a massive structure beyond Jupiter trapped the cosmic dust needed to form the first building blocks ...