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Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth's missing elements
Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.
Perseverance Mars rover finds 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on Red Planet's Silver Mountain
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover found a 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on the rim of Jezero Crater, a rock that could help reveal ...
From Lava to Life: Unlocking Earth’s Oldest Mysteries
Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...
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Earth's missing elements were lost in violent collisions during formation
New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...
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NASA discovers planet eight times bigger than Earth
NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth. The ...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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NASA finds life's building blocks from an unknown water world in asteroid sample
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
This giant planet formed in a strange way, scientists find
Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
Asteroid impact on moon blasted two grand canyons in 10 minutes
The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-77 Chance of Hitting Earth. Here's What It Would Do
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...