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Early Jupiter Shaped Earth's Formation Zone, Study Finds

High-resolution simulations link the gas giant’s rapid birth to disk rings that delayed a second generation of solids.

Scientists Detect Habitable-Zone ‘Super‑Earth’ GJ 251 c Just 18 Light‑Years Away

Nearby Habitable-Zone Super-Earth Candidate GJ 251 c Announced in Peer-Reviewed Study

NASA Confirms Earth’s Temporary Quasi-Satellite as Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Nears Perihelion

3-Billion-Year-Old White Dwarf Is Actively Devouring Rocky Debris, Study Finds

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

NASA Confirms Tiny Asteroid 2025 PN7 as Earth’s Quasi-Moon Through 2083

Europa Clipper May Skim 3I/ATLAS’s Ion Tail as Interstellar Comet Nears Perihelion

Mars Ice Could Preserve Organic Traces for 50 Million Years, NASA-Led Study Finds

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

Titan Study Shows Hydrogen Cyanide Mixing With Methane and Ethane in Stable Co-Crystals

Study Shows Dry Ice Blocks Carve Mars' Sinuous Dune Gullies

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

Scientists Identify Ice XXI, a Metastable High-Density Phase of Water

Explosive Early Mars Eruptions May Have Left Ice at the Equator

Cassini Reanalysis Finds Complex Organics From Enceladus’s Ocean in Fresh Plume Grains

Global Catalog of Martian Dust Devils Reveals Faster Near-Surface Winds on Mars

Rogue Planet Caught in Record Growth Spurt, Accreting Like a Young Star

Study Recasts Moon’s Largest Crater as Northerly Glancing Impact That Sharpens Artemis Science Goals

Blue Origin Rolls New Glenn Booster to Launch Site for NASA’s Mars ESCAPADE Mission