7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (853+ words) Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 - A long standing idea in planetary science is that water rich meteorites arriving late in Earth history could have delivered a major share of the planet's water. A new study that mines the Moon's imp…...

10+ mon, 6+ day ago   (443+ words) Over the last century, scientists have reported 20 crystalline ice phases by varying temperature and pressure. These include forms that exist across over 2,000 K and more than 100 GPa. The region between ambient pressure and 2 GPa is particularly complex, with over ten…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (249+ words) Significantly, the planetesimals produced in these bands belonged to a second generation and formed millions of years after the earliest solid bodies. This timing corresponds to the creation of chondrites - stony meteorites that contain essential chemical and chronological clues from…...

11+ mon, 4+ week ago   (396+ words) Research on a tiny portion of the 5.4 grams of rock and dust collected from the Ryugu asteroid, some 300 million kilometres (185 million miles) from Earth, offers new insights into how the solar system looked in the early life of our planet....