They found that around half the Earth's inventory of the volatile element zinc came from asteroids originating in the outer Solar System -- the part beyond the asteroid belt that includes the planets ...

Washington, D.C.–Tiny variations in the isotopic composition of silver in meteorites and Earth rocks are helping scientists put together a timetable of how our planet was assembled beginning 4.568 ...

Schematic view of Earth's accretion that led to the origin of Earth's life-essential volatile elements including carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan ...

Meteorites have told Imperial researchers the likely far-flung origin of Earth's volatile chemicals, some of which form the building blocks of life. They found that around half the Earth's inventory ...