Theories around the formation of Earth have just been challenged by researchers from ETH Zurich. For a long time, the general ...
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An international team of scientists has examined dust grains gathered by the NASA Stardust spacecraft and brought back to Earth – and has discovered that they originated in the interstellar dust ...
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have identified a distant small body beyond Pluto, adding a fourth member to the rare group of objects known as sednoids. A sednoid is a rare type of ...
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Planetary scientists led by Paolo Sossi have determined that Earth assembled almost entirely from material originating in the ...