Everything you’ve ever stood on, every rock, every continent, every grain of sand, may have been manufactured in a single ...

Earth’s earliest chapter is mostly gone. Rocks from the planet’s first few billion years have been eroded, buried, recycled, ...

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The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...

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Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

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This small, unassuming mineral may be older than Earth itself. Krotite reminds us of the vast timescales and surprising ...

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...