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Simulations Show Moon Could Have Formed Intact in Hours After Giant Impact

The result comes from collision models that add temperature-dependent rock strength and offers a new way to test when and how the impact occurred.

Psyche Releases Mars Flyby Time-Lapse After Successful Instrument Tests

Study Finds Earth’s Phosphorus and Nitrogen Came From the Inner Solar System

Lab Experiments Recreate Mercury Magma to Show Sulfur Lowers Crystallization Temperatures

Hayabusa2’s Ryugu Samples Confirm All Five DNA/RNA Bases, Pointing to Space-Born Formation Clues

Ubiquitous Carbon Film Found to Control Static Charge Flow on Insulating Oxides

Astronomers Publish Evidence of Planetary Collision Around Sun-Like Star

Astronomers Tie Distant Star’s Chaotic Fading to Evidence of a Planetary Collision

New Experiments Suggest Earth’s Core Holds Nine to 45 Oceans’ Worth of Hydrogen

Far-Side Moon Samples Link South Pole–Aitken Impact to Lunar Asymmetry

MIT Team Finds Potassium-40 Anomaly That Points to Surviving Proto‑Earth Mantle