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Oldest Direct Evidence Shows Earth's Plates Were Moving 3.5 Billion Years Ago

Extensive paleomagnetic measurements from the Pilbara Craton capture the earliest geomagnetic reversal, ruling out a global stagnant lid.

Cornell Catalog Identifies 45 Rocky Exoplanets in Habitable Zones

Cracks in Bennu’s Boulders Solve OSIRIS‑REx Thermal Mystery

JWST Helps Reveal Sulfur-Rich Magma-Ocean World L 98-59 d

Ryugu Samples Contain All Five DNA and RNA Bases, Peer-Reviewed Study Finds

Study Confirms DART Nudged Asteroid Pair’s Orbit Around the Sun

ALMA Finds Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Strikingly Methanol‑Rich With Unusual Outgassing

Study Confirms North Sea’s Silverpit Crater Was Made by an Asteroid, Triggering Ancient Mega-Tsunami

Webb Data Confirms Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Safely Fly Past the Moon in 2032

DART Impact Measurably Nudged Asteroid Pair’s Orbit Around the Sun, Study Confirms

NASA Rules Out 2032 Lunar Impact From Asteroid 2024 YR4 After JWST Data

Study Confirms Record Martian Electron Surge From 2024 Solar Superstorm

JUICE Releases Best-Yet Image of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as Data Flow Begins

AI Flags Credible Luna 9 Candidate Site in Lunar Orbiter Data

SPHEREx Detects Late Outburst From Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, Revealing Organic Molecules

Young Mars Volcanoes Show Long-Lived, Evolving Magma Systems

Reanalysis of Magellan Data Points to Kilometer-Scale Lava Tube Beneath Venus

NASA-Led Study Finds Nonbiological Sources Fall Short for Curiosity’s Mars Organics

Study Puts 4.3% Chance on Asteroid 2024 YR4 Striking the Moon in 2032

Bennu Samples Show Amino Acids Likely Formed in Icy, Radioactive Environments