Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...

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Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar system, they consider it likely that 6–40% of this material must have ...

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A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result ...

The world’s first major private geoengineering start-up must have known it’d have skeptics. The basic premise—dimming the sun to artificially cool the planet—has been called reckless by scientists and ...

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In the rugged goldfields of southeastern Australia, a local prospector spent years trying to crack open a mysterious, rust-colored rock. He was convinced it held gold. The object was unusually heavy, ...

Astronomers have found a second planet that is in the process of forming in a dust cloud around a young star called WISPIT 2 — providing a glimpse of the birth of a solar system 1. Chloe Lawlor at the ...

"Most planetary systems appear as 'peas in a pod.' This is not the case in the TOI-201 system." ...