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Lunar Samples Returned by Apollo 17 Contain Anomalous Sulfur, New Analysis Shows
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Leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon involve a giant impact between the proto-Earth and a separate impactor called ...

3I/ATLAS-Like Interstellar Objects Could Kick Start Planet Formation around High-Mass Stars
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Opening 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS showed that a significant number of interstellar objects inhabit interstellar space. Their ubiquity means that ...

Free-Floating Exoplanet Found Growing at Record Rate
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CHA J11070768-7626326 (CHA 1107-7626 for short), a young isolated exoplanet is 5-10 times higher than the mass of Jupiter, experiences ...