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.

AstronomyDecember 1, 2016

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

Linda T. Elkins-Tanton