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New Scripps Research Ship Will Honor Astronaut Sally Ride

April 17, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Dr. Sally K. Ride, physicist, NASA astronaut, and first American woman to fly in space, will be honored with a U.S. Navy research vessel bearing her name, which will be operated by and homeported at San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “Dr. [...]

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Isotopic Evidence of the Moon’s Violent Origins

October 17, 2012

Artist’s impression of an impact of two planet-sized worlds (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Scientists have uncovered a history of violence hidden within lunar rocks, further evidence that our large, lovely Moon was born of a cataclysmic collision between worlds billions of years ago. Remove this ad

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The Case of the Disappearing Dust

July 5, 2012

Astronomy has always taught us that planets form from vast clouds of dust and gas orbiting young stars. It’s a gradual process of accretion that takes hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of years… or does it? Remove this ad

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