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Man kept a rock he thought was ‘gold’ for years. Turns out it was a 4.6-billion-year-old treasure even rarer than gold
In the historic goldfields of southeastern Australia, David Hole discovered something unusual near Maryborough Regional Park.
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A meteorite from Alaska may hold the truth about where Earth’s water came from
A rare meteorite recovered from Alaska is prompting scientists to rethinkhow Earth got its water. New findings suggest our ...
Jupiter's influence on our Solar System dates back to a time when Earth was still just a cloud of dust and gas. Long before our planet took shape, the gas giant was already playing a decisive role in ...
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system (so large, in fact, that some scientists think it might have even consumed other worlds), a gas giant so massive that it shaped the orbits and ...
Scientists have pinpointed Jupiter's birth to 4.6 billion years ago, a mere 1.8 million years after the solar system's formation. This discovery, gleaned from studying chondrules within meteorites, ...
Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned into the planets we know today. One giant, Jupiter, grew quickly and changed ...
Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and icy bodies similar to modern asteroids and comets, ...
Around 4.6 billion years ago, vast clouds of dust began to accumulate to form the solar system. Ancient asteroids such as Bennu contain the remnants of this formative moment, allowing scientists to ...
Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research suggests the planet didn't need the delivery. Reading time 3 minutes Water ...
Scientists have found the origin of WATER on Earth - and say it didn't come from asteroids after all
With an abundant supply of liquid water, Earth is one of the few places in the universe where life can develop and flourish. But scientists have long wondered where exactly all of our life-giving ...
In 1877, when English geologist Henry Clifton Sorby first examined samples of meteorites under a microscope, he saw small, spherical rocks and described them as “drops of fiery rain.” Now known as ...
They are 99.9999999999995% empty space. Almost perfectly nothing. And yet they make up everything you see, touch, smell, taste, and feel. They feed and clothe you. Their motion makes you warm (and ...
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