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Nature’s Ultra-Rare Isotopes Can’t Hide from this New Particle Accelerator
A new particle accelerator at Michigan State University is producing long-awaited results. It's called the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams,…
Water was Already Here Before the Earth Formed
Where did Earth's water come from? That's one of the most compelling questions in the ongoing effort to understand life's…
Mars Was Too Small to Ever be Habitable
Mars and water. Those words can trigger an avalanche of speculation, evidence, hypotheses, and theories. Mars has some water now,…
What Did The Solar System Look Like Before All The Planets Migrated?
Early planetary migration in the solar system has been long established, and there are myriad theories that have been put…
We Know We’re Made of Stardust. But Did it Come From Red Giants?
We've all heard this one: when you drink a glass of water, that water has already been through a bunch…
Weekly Space Hangout – Mar 17, 2017: Stuart McNeill of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Stuart McNeill is the the Community Engagement specialist in charge of Family Programs and…
Astronomy Cast 323: Isotopes
The number of protons defines an element, but the number of neutrons can vary. We call these different flavors of…
Isotopes May One Day Aid In Planet Search
When we consider samples from the solar nebula, we think about comets and meteorites. These materials come from our solar…
More Evidence That Mars Lost Its Atmosphere
Although today Mars' atmosphere is sparse and thin -- barely 1% the density of Earth's at sea level -- scientists…
Did A Supernova Shape Our Solar System?
[/caption] Away in space some 4.57 billion years ago, in a galaxy yet to be called the Milky Way, a…