Earth's origins are challenging to elucidate, given the lack of surviving terrestrial geology
from the first 500 Myr of the Solar System. In this Review, we discuss breakthroughs in …

Meteorites, which are remnants of solar system formation, provide a direct glimpse into the
dynamics and evolution of a young stellar object (YSO), namely our Sun. Much of our …

In 1794, the German physicist EFF Chladni published a small book in which he proposed
the extraterrestrial origin of meteorites. The response was skepticism and disbelief. In the …

A giant impact between the proto-Earth and a Mars-sized impactor named Theia is the
favoured scenario for the formation of the Moon,,. Oxygen isotopic compositions have been …

Abstract The short-lived 182 Hf-182 W isotope system (t 1/2= 9 Ma) left evidence in both
ancient and modern terrestrial rock record of processes that took place during the earliest …

A new model for terrestrial planet formation (Hansen [2009]. Astrophys. J., 703, 1131–1140;
Walsh, KJ, et al.[2011]. Nature, 2011, 206–209) has explored accretion in a truncated …

The date of the Moon-forming impact places an important constraint on Earth's origin. Lunar
age estimates range from about 30 Myr to 200 Myr after Solar System formation. Central to …

According to the generally accepted scenario, the last giant impact on Earth formed the
Moon and initiated the final phase of core formation by melting Earth's mantle. A key goal of …

We report the discovery of TOI 837b and its validation as a transiting planet. We characterize
the system using data from the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission, the ESA …

According to the most widely accepted theory of lunar origin, a giant impact on the Earth led
to the formation of the Moon, and also initiated the final stage of the formation of the Earth's …