planetary science

Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth

[ad_1] “Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life,…

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Behold the Weird Physics of Double-Impact Asteroids

[ad_1] The best candidate for a binary crater on Earth today is the Lockne crater in Sweden and a smaller…

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Astronomers Radically Reimagine the Making of the Planets

[ad_1] Start at the center, with the sun. Our middle-aged star may be more placid than most, but it is…

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NASA’s InSight Mars Lander’s Days Are Numbered

[ad_1] While InSight’s pair of solar panels, each one shaped like a decagonal (10-sided) pie, efficiently provide solar power to…

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