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Earth's building blocks came not from the outer solar system but right here, challenging long-standing theories
Theories around the formation of Earth have just been challenged by researchers from ETH Zurich. For a long time, the general idea saw our planet forming from a mixture of local planetesimals – the ...
When our sun was a young star, 4.56 billion years ago, what is now our solar system was just a disk of rocky dust and gas. Over tens of millions of years, tiny dust pebbles coalesced, like a snowball ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. One of the chemicals considered essential to life on Earth may have ...
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