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Earth and the Mysterious Planet Theia Were Likely Close Neighbors Before the Moon Formed
The moon has been Earth's constant companion for approximately 4.5 billion years, escorting the planet during its myriad journeys around the sun. While its origins are a little hazy - it cannot be ...
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Earth’s oldest known material was born before Earth existed
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 ...
Our Solar System is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began to condense on itself gravitationally ~ 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud ...
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 ...
Billions of years ago, in the giant disk of dust, gas, and rocky material that orbited our young sun, larger and larger bodies coalesced to eventually give rise to the planets, moons, and asteroids we ...
Boston, Mass. – Glacial deposits that formed on tropical land areas during snowball Earth episodes around 600 million years ago, lead to questions about how the glaciers that left the deposits were ...
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