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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

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

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

Mercury's interior based

Mercury has a solid inner core

Black Hole

First Direct Images of a Black Hole

Mars

Scientists find likely source of methane on Mars

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...

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...

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

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

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

Huge Crater Discovered in Greenland

Mars

Naturally occurring ‘batteries’ fueled organic carbon synthesis on Mars

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

Oldest rock on Earth

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

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

Mars valleys traced back to precipitation

The oldest known zircon from Mars.

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

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

Learning about the Himalayas using Mars technology

Herðubreið Volcano in Iceland

Minerology on Mars points to a cold and icy ancient climate

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

Thank the moon for Earth’s lengthening day

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone ‘extremely relevant’ to origin of life

Yellowstone National Park

A Yellowstone guide to life on Mars

moon's mantle

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

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