The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

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NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

In recent weeks, you've likely heard a lot about rare-earth substances with hard-to-pronounce names, but experts warn that ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

More Emmet Livingstone/AFP via Getty Images Access to valuable minerals ... China remains the global powerhouse in rare earth elements, holding 44 million metric tons and remaining the world's ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope show the first steps ...

In 2023 scientists detected an asteroid called 33 Polyhymnia which could have an element denser than anything found on Earth ... of science. Getty Images The Barringer Crater in Arizona, US ...

Odin will take 300 days to catch up with the asteroid one million miles from Earth. It will take close-up images of the surface ... test for platinum and other elements. If the asteroid is as ...

The planet in Ash, referred to Ash, is based on Kepler-442b, a rocky exo-planet about 1,200 light years from Earth. According ... gallery of never-before-seen images of the planet in Ash.