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In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when ...

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed that the asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life, including sugar and ...

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Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

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Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...