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Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

A new study from the University of Florida analyzing moon rock samples from a Chinese lunar exploration mission is rewriting ...

The origins in question, researchers believe, could be the BLOBS found deep within the Earth. These mysterious structures ...

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In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

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CAIRO (Jared Collins/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Researchers have discovered two meteorites in the Sahara Desert that they believe may have originated from Mercury.

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

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Training schools focused on modeling solid Earth responses to ice mass changes offer lessons on how early-career scientists ...