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Our Moon’s 4-Billion-Year Impact Record Suggests Meteorites Didn’t Supply Earth’s Water

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A Youthful Titan Implied By Improved Impact Simulations

Titan

A Youthful Titan Implied By Improved Impact Simulations

Planetary Impacts: Friend Or Foe?

Impact events

Planetary Impacts: Friend Or Foe?

Europa’s Spider-like Features And The Potential For Life

Europa

Europa’s Spider-like Features And The Potential For Life

Earth’s Largest Modern Crater Discovered In Southern China

Impact events

Earth’s Largest Modern Crater Discovered In Southern China

Onset Of Habitable Conditions On The Hadean Earth Set By Feedback Between Tides And Greenhouse Forcing

Habitable Zones

Onset Of Habitable Conditions On The Hadean Earth Set By Feedback Between Tides And Greenhouse Forcing

Atmospheric Collapse And re-inflation Through Impacts For Terrestrial Planets Around M Dwarfs

Atmospheres, Climate, Weather

Atmospheric Collapse And re-inflation Through Impacts For Terrestrial Planets Around M Dwarfs

Pseudo-panspermia of Phosphorus Species on the Early Earth

Panspermia

Pseudo-panspermia of Phosphorus Species on the Early Earth

Re-accretion of Giant Impact Ejecta Can Drive Significant Atmospheric Erosion on Terrestrial Planets

Impact events

Re-accretion of Giant Impact Ejecta Can Drive Significant Atmospheric Erosion on Terrestrial Planets

The Depletion Of The Asteroid Belt And The Impact History Of The Earth

Impact events

The Depletion Of The Asteroid Belt And The Impact History Of The Earth

Multiple Giant Impacts and Chemical Equilibria: An Integrated Approach to Rocky Planet Formation

Impact events

Multiple Giant Impacts and Chemical Equilibria: An Integrated Approach to Rocky Planet Formation

Shocked Quartz At The Younger Dryas Onset Supports Cosmic Airbursts/Impacts

Impact events

Shocked Quartz At The Younger Dryas Onset Supports Cosmic Airbursts/Impacts

Piecing Together Formic Acid Isomerism In Dark Clouds. Detection Of Cis-formic Acid In TMC-1 And Astrochemical Modeling

Astrochemistry

Piecing Together Formic Acid Isomerism In Dark Clouds. Detection Of Cis-formic Acid In TMC-1 And Astrochemical Modeling

Discovery Links Microbial Colonization To An Ancient Meteorite Crater

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Discovery Links Microbial Colonization To An Ancient Meteorite Crater

Isotopic Composition Of Cometary Water And The Origin Of Earth’s Oceans

Astrochemistry

Isotopic Composition Of Cometary Water And The Origin Of Earth’s Oceans

InSight Lander Marsquake Data Reveals Lumpy Nature Of Mars’ Interior

Mars

InSight Lander Marsquake Data Reveals Lumpy Nature Of Mars’ Interior

Life On Earth Probably Needed Supplies From Space

Impact events

Life On Earth Probably Needed Supplies From Space

Century-Scale Effect Of Climate Change On Meteorite Falls

Meteorites & Asteroids

Century-Scale Effect Of Climate Change On Meteorite Falls

Geology And Mars Analog Potential Of The < 2.7-billion-year-old Miralga Impact Structure, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Australia

Impact events

Geology And Mars Analog Potential Of The < 2.7-billion-year-old Miralga Impact Structure, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Australia

Fossils Shed Light On The Era Before Earth’s Largest Mass Extinction

Fossils & Paleontology

Fossils Shed Light On The Era Before Earth’s Largest Mass Extinction