planetary habitability

October 17, 2026

High-pressure experiments found that oxygen-rich basaltic melts can retain substantial oxygen beyond conventional chemical accounting.Quenched samples contained 5.2%…

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October 2, 2026

Earth and Mars may have formed through surprisingly different mixtures of pebble accretion, planetesimal collisions and giant impacts,…

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April 3, 2026

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in…

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Two-billion-year oxygen transformation on earth unveiled

August 28, 2025

How Earth’s atmosphere transformed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich over a span of about two billion years has been…

Scientists discover oxygen trapped deep inside Earth’s magma, possibly explaining the rise of early life

New evidence challenges the idea that Earth and Mars formed the same way

Planetary scientists reveal where Earth’s water and building blocks came from

Two-billion-year oxygen transformation on earth unveiled