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Lunar Meteorite Preserves Evidence of a 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Giant Moon Impact

Alignment of the meteorite’s dates with impacts on Earth and asteroid 4 Vesta gives rare three-body evidence that refines how early bombardment may have shaped emerging life.

Fitzwilliam Team Finds Ancient Egyptian 'White-Out' on 3,300-Year-Old Book of the Dead

AWS Signs Two-Year Deal for Rio Tinto’s Nuton Copper to Supply U.S. Data Centers

Chang'e-6 Samples Confirm Hematite and Maghemite on the Moon

China’s Jinlin Crater Confirmed as Earth’s Largest Known Holocene Impact Site

U.S. Finalizes 2025 Critical Minerals List, Adding Copper, Metallurgical Coal, Phosphate and Potash

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

Earliest European Blue Pigment Confirmed on 13,000-Year-Old German Artifact

Mineral Condensation Captured in Planet-Forming Disk of Protostar HOPS-315

Advanced Microscopy Reveals Fiery Origins of Apollo’s Orange Lunar Glass Beads