What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...
New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...
In a historic achievement for lunar exploration, China’s Chang’e-6 mission successfully returned the first-ever samples from the moon’s far side in 2024. These samples, collected from the South ...
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AI models used ancient zircons to reveal Earth’s earliest crust chemistry, solving a long-standing geologic mystery. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the ...
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...