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Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

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Earth likely formed from inner Solar System material alone, raising fresh questions about the origin of water on our planet.

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Exoplanet L98-59d, located far beyond our solar system, might not sound like someone’s dream destination. It likely has an ...

Theories around the formation of Earth have just been challenged by researchers from ETH Zurich. For a long time, the general idea saw our planet forming from a mixture of local planetesimals – the ...

Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...