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Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

For over four billion years, the Moon has been orbiting Earth — but where did it come from? The Moon has been a constant ...

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While the scientific fields of planetary geology and archaeology don’t initially seem like a natural pairing, their unique methodological and technological overlap provides scientists with a better ...

Thick clay deposits on Mars hint at long-lived lakes that may have sheltered early life - and preserved clues beneath layers ...

DART photos reveal geology, age of asteroids The photos and data were collected from a spacecraft that crashed into Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022, as part of NASA's inaugural Double Asteroid ...

A new study led by APL planetary geologist Chloe Beddingfield points to medial grooves—trenches that cut through Ariel's massive canyons—as the likely conduits for this exchange.

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A Massachusetts geology professor is playing a key role in NASA's $5.2 billion Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter. "So we're orbiting Jupiter and we've designed it so that we are flying past Europa ...