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Study Finds Early Life Used Molybdenum Billions of Years Before Oxygen Rise

The result broadens life-detection strategies by showing biology can thrive with trace metals in short supply.

Earth Formed Entirely from Inner Solar System Material, Study Finds

IIT Kharagpur–PRL Pinpoint Two-Stage Origin of the Moon’s High‑Titanium Basalts

Hayabusa2 Ryugu Samples Contain All Five DNA and RNA Bases

Hayabusa2’s Ryugu Samples Contain All Five DNA/RNA Bases

Machine Learning Maps 400 Bright Slope Streaks on Mercury, Hinting at Ongoing Volatile Loss

Apollo Soil Study Finds Meteorites Supplied Only a Small Share of Earth’s Water

NASA Study of Apollo Moon Soil Finds Meteorites Supplied Only a Small Share of Earth’s Water

Helium-3 Dating Reveals Rapid Post-Impact Evolution in Ocean Plankton

Pompeii Baths Went From Foul Wells to Cleaner Aqueducts, With Lead Risks

Bennu Samples Reveal Six Sugars, Including First Extraterrestrial Glucose

Cosmic Dust Isotopes Chart 300,000 Years of Arctic Sea-Ice Change

Lab Experiments Reveal Planets Can Make Water From Hydrogen–Magma Reactions

PNAS Study Finds Rare Water-Rich Meteorite Relics in Chang'e-6 Far-Side Samples

Ancient Mantle Rocks Reveal Potassium-40 Deficit Linked to Surviving Proto‑Earth

First Detection of Heavy Water in a Planet-Forming Disk Points to Prestellar Origins

Study Pinpoints a Dry Proto‑Earth Within 3 Million Years, Bolstering Theia Water‑Delivery Theory

Australian 'Ananguites' Point to a Giant 11-Million-Year-Old Impact With No Known Crater

Ice Shown to Dissolve Iron Faster Than Liquid Water in New Lab Study

New 'Ananguite' Tektite Field Identified in Australia From 11-Million-Year-Old Impact