A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...
Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do ...
About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...
Ancient Moon dust, meteorite traces and Apollo samples are helping NASA scientists rethink where Earth’s water truly came ...
Long before Earth formed, tiny mineral grains were already drifting through space, forged in the final breaths of dying stars. Those grains, older than our planet by billions of years, now sit in ...
The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed. When you purchase through ...