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Are super-Earths more friendly to life than we thought?

The inner core of the Earth is a solid spinning ball of mostly iron, almost the size of the Moon. Temperatures on the surface of the inner core can reach close to those at the surface of the Sun. The next layer, the outer core,... click to read more

Arshia Ruina | PhD Student at University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

planet formation

iron

laser

super-Earth

magnetosphere

extra-terrestrial life

Reading time 3.5 min

published on May 30, 2022

To See a World in a Grain of Interplanetary Dust

With each new spacecraft launch, we become more familiar with today's Solar System, from our nearest neighbor planets to those in cold and distant outer orbits, yet the details of how the Solar System formed and evolved to its present state remain a mystery. We... click to read more

Hope A. Ishii | Professor at Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

solar system

comets

planet formation

cosmic origins

interplanetary dust

Reading time 4 min

published on Mar 22, 2019