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Snapshots of numerical modeling of the moon’s formation by a giant impact. The central part of the image is a proto-Earth; red points indicate materials from the ocean of magma in a proto-Earth; blue points indicate the impactor materials.

Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup

May 2, 2019

InSight's seismometer was taken on the 110th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

NASA’s InSight detects first likely ‘quake’ on Mars

April 24, 2019

Mercury has a solid inner core

April 17, 2019

First Direct Images of a Black Hole

April 11, 2019

Scientists find likely source of methane on Mars

April 3, 2019

$A model for the compositional evolution of the early Earth's crust due to fractional crystallization of impact melt sheets followed by detachment and sinking of their dense primitive portions towards the crust-mantle boundary. Credit: Rais Latypov$

Ancient asteroid impacts played a role in creation of Earth’s future...

February 2, 2019

Image depicts the change in impact rate modeled in this paper. Some of the craters used in the study on both the moon and Earth are highlighted in the background. Credit: Data from NASA GSFC / LRO / Arizona State University; Artwork by Rebecca Ghent

Scientists find increase in asteroid impacts on ancient Earth by studying...

January 18, 2019

Close-up of the meteorite fragment showing the fusion crust.

Detective mission to characterise and trace the history of a new...

November 27, 2018

Map of the bedrock topography beneath the ice sheet and the ice-free land surrounding the Hiawatha impact crater.

Huge Crater Discovered in Greenland

November 17, 2018

Naturally occurring ‘batteries’ fueled organic carbon synthesis on Mars

November 1, 2018

66 million years ago a meteorite of a diameter 14 km wide struck the Earth with an enormous speed of 20.000 kilometers per hour drilling itself 20 km into the Earth's crust

The formation of large meteorite craters is unraveled

October 29, 2018

Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth’s oldest rocks

August 17, 2018

The central portion of Osuga Valles, which has a total length of 164 km.

Mars valleys traced back to precipitation

July 3, 2018

Meteorite ‘Black Beauty’ expands window for when life might have existed...

June 30, 2018

This is a temple in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, India,

Learning about the Himalayas using Mars technology

June 21, 2018

Minerology on Mars points to a cold and icy ancient climate

June 9, 2018

Earth taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts on Dec. 22, 1968

Thank the moon for Earth’s lengthening day

June 5, 2018

Yellowstone ‘extremely relevant’ to origin of life

May 20, 2018

A Yellowstone guide to life on Mars

April 28, 2018

Magma ocean may be responsible for the moon’s early magnetic field

April 28, 2018

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Genetics reveals where emperor penguins survived the last ice age

March 6, 2015

Fossil that fills missing evolutionary link named after University of Chicago professors

November 18, 2017

World’s biggest-ever flying bird discovered

July 8, 2014

Antarctic volcano that just doesn’t make any sense

April 8, 2015

T. rex had an air conditioner in its head

September 4, 2019

USGS: Risk of 2016 quake increases, especially in Oklahoma

March 29, 2016

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Meteorite strikes may create unexpected form of silica

Meteorite study suggests Earth may have been wet since it formed

Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers, researchers say

Asteroid impact enriches certain elements in seawater

It was microbial mayhem in the Chicxulub crater, research suggests