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Earth's Building Blocks Came Not From The Outer Solar System But Right Here, Challenging Long-Standing Theoriesthe image shows a magma world with asteroids falling in.

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Earth's Building Blocks Came Not From The Outer Solar System But Right Here, Challenging Long-Standing Theoriesthe image shows a magma world with asteroids falling in.
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Earth's Building Blocks Came Not From The Outer Solar System But Right Here, Challenging Long-Standing Theories

clock-iconMarch 31, 2026

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“Earliest Moment” Of Planet Formation Spotted For First Time Around Star 1,300 Light-Years AwayThe gas distribution looks like a butterfly wings open. Across the middle a blue turbulent jet traces the silicon monoxide.

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“Earliest Moment” Of Planet Formation Spotted For First Time Around Star 1,300 Light-Years AwayThe gas distribution looks like a butterfly wings open. Across the middle a blue turbulent jet traces the silicon monoxide.
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“Earliest Moment” Of Planet Formation Spotted For First Time Around Star 1,300 Light-Years Away

clock-iconJuly 16, 2025
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Northwest Africa 12264: Ancient Meteorite May Change Our Timeline Of The Solar SystemA protoplanet forming around a star (illustration).

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Northwest Africa 12264: Ancient Meteorite May Change Our Timeline Of The Solar SystemA protoplanet forming around a star (illustration).
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Northwest Africa 12264: Ancient Meteorite May Change Our Timeline Of The Solar System

clock-iconJuly 16, 2025
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Jupiter, The Largest Planet In Our Solar System, Was Once Twice As BigThe shadow of Jupiter's fifth largest moon Amalthea on Jupiter. Amalthea's orbit offers clues that Jupiter was once far larger than it is today.

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Jupiter, The Largest Planet In Our Solar System, Was Once Twice As BigThe shadow of Jupiter's fifth largest moon Amalthea on Jupiter. Amalthea's orbit offers clues that Jupiter was once far larger than it is today.
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Jupiter, The Largest Planet In Our Solar System, Was Once Twice As Big

clock-iconMay 21, 2025
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System Of “Cotton-Candy” Planets Has A Lurking Fourth MemberKepler-51 and its three inner superpuffy planets, including the least dense planet ever found, with the fourth planet out of view.

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System Of “Cotton-Candy” Planets Has A Lurking Fourth MemberKepler-51 and its three inner superpuffy planets, including the least dense planet ever found, with the fourth planet out of view.
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System Of “Cotton-Candy” Planets Has A Lurking Fourth Member

clock-iconDecember 4, 2024
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Why Are The Universe's Most Common Elements So Rare On Earth?When you look at the Earth most of what you see is water, two thirds of whose atoms are hydrogen, but that element is actually a tiny proportion of the planet as a whole.

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Why Are The Universe's Most Common Elements So Rare On Earth?When you look at the Earth most of what you see is water, two thirds of whose atoms are hydrogen, but that element is actually a tiny proportion of the planet as a whole.
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Why Are The Universe's Most Common Elements So Rare On Earth?

clock-iconAugust 9, 2024
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Why Isn't The Earth Perfectly Round?Artistic impression of the Earth from space.

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Why Isn't The Earth Perfectly Round?Artistic impression of the Earth from space.
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Why Isn't The Earth Perfectly Round?

clock-iconJuly 31, 2024
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TWIS: Discovery Of Unknown DNA In Mars-Like Conditions, 360-Million-Year Old Predatory Fish Was The Length Of Five Corgis, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.

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TWIS: Discovery Of Unknown DNA In Mars-Like Conditions, 360-Million-Year Old Predatory Fish Was The Length Of Five Corgis, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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TWIS: Discovery Of Unknown DNA In Mars-Like Conditions, 360-Million-Year Old Predatory Fish Was The Length Of Five Corgis, And Much More This Week

clock-iconFebruary 24, 2023
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Comets Are Turning Into Planets In Three Star Systemsarticle image

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Comets Are Turning Into Planets In Three Star Systemsarticle image
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Comets Are Turning Into Planets In Three Star Systems

clock-iconOctober 20, 2017

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Rogue Earth Planets Might Be More Common Than Rogue Jupitersarticle image

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Rogue Earth Planets Might Be More Common Than Rogue Jupitersarticle image
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Rogue Earth Planets Might Be More Common Than Rogue Jupiters

clock-iconJuly 24, 2017

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Planets Might Be Forming Thanks To Dust Trapsarticle image

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Planets Might Be Forming Thanks To Dust Trapsarticle image
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Planets Might Be Forming Thanks To Dust Traps

clock-iconMarch 1, 2017

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Pair Of Infant Planets Spotted Forming Around A Young Stararticle image

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Pair Of Infant Planets Spotted Forming Around A Young Stararticle image
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Pair Of Infant Planets Spotted Forming Around A Young Star

clock-iconDecember 12, 2016

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Parent Star Of "Lost" Lonely Planet Foundarticle image

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Parent Star Of "Lost" Lonely Planet Foundarticle image
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Parent Star Of "Lost" Lonely Planet Found

clock-iconJanuary 26, 2016

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Planets Might Not Always Be Hiding In Disk Gaps Seen Around Young Starsarticle image

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Planets Might Not Always Be Hiding In Disk Gaps Seen Around Young Starsarticle image
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Planets Might Not Always Be Hiding In Disk Gaps Seen Around Young Stars

clock-iconNovember 3, 2015

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Primitive Meteorites Brought Water To Early Eartharticle image

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Primitive Meteorites Brought Water To Early Eartharticle image
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Primitive Meteorites Brought Water To Early Earth

clock-iconOctober 31, 2014