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Was Mercury as Large as the Earth in the Distant Past? An ancient explosion might have shrunk Mercury down and left it a weird shadow of its former self. By Cassidy Ward 1 month ago
Radioactivity powers volcanoes of salty ice on Ceres The cryovolcanoes aren't nuclear, but their heat comes from radioactive decay. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Space warps can kill planetary systems before they’re born Let's not do the space warp again. By Cassidy Ward 2 years ago
Good soup! Raw ingredients for life abundant in the swirling discs around newly forming planets By Cassidy Ward 2 years ago
Psyche is an asteroid that might have been the ancient core of a wrecked planet — or was it? By Elizabeth Rayne 2 years ago
A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet By Phil Plait 4 years ago