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The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

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Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7 ... of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. "We identified two large asteroids that show similar spectral features to ...