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Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost "protoplanet" that formed in the early solar ...

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

Looking at the Solar System, Jupiter and Uranus both have plenty of irregular moons. In supercomputer simulations, the ...

The findings suggest Jupiter's formation shaped the chemistry that helped make habitable worlds possible.

The jokes write themselves. The post NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System ...

This small, unassuming mineral may be older than Earth itself. Krotite reminds us of the vast timescales and surprising ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

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Estimating ages of specific events is one of the most difficult problems in astrophysics. While we have a precise (and probably accurate) age for the solar system, we do not have precise ages for each ...