Astronomy
Our Solar System Was Born through High-Energy Crashes, Not Stately Growth
Our neighborhood of planets was not created slowly, as scientists once thought, but in a speedy blur of high-energy crashes, destruction and rebuilding
Stories by Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, a planetary geologist specializing in the evolution of terrestrial planets, is vice president of Arizona State University's Interplanetary Initiative and principal investigator of the NASA Psyche mission. Credit: Nick Higgins
