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Lab Experiments Recreate Mercury Magma to Show Sulfur Lowers Crystallization Temperatures

The results point to sulfur‑driven magmatism in an oxygen‑poor state on Mercury.

Perseverance Finds Record Nickel in Mars Bedrock That Bolsters Case for Ancient Habitability

Oxford Study Finds Moon’s Magnetic Field Was Mostly Weak Through Its History

New Global Map Reveals Young Lunar Fault Ridges, Expanding Moonquake Risk Zones

Young Mars Volcanoes Show Long-Lived, Evolving Magma Systems

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

First Subsurface Lava Tube Detected on Venus in Reprocessed Magellan Radar

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

High-Resolution Mars Mapping Points to Arctic-Sized Ocean 3 Billion Years Ago

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

New Mars Express Images Reveal Vast Wind-Carved Ridges at Eumenides Dorsum

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

MIT-Led Team Finds Proto-Earth Signature Preserved in Deep Mantle After Moon-Forming Impact

Early Jupiter Shaped the Inner Solar System, Study Finds

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

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

Study Shows Dry Ice Blocks Carve Mars' Sinuous Dune Gullies

Ferric Hydroxysulfate Identified on Mars, Hinting at Amazonian Geothermal and Volcanic Activity

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