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Study Finds Earth’s Phosphorus and Nitrogen Came From the Inner Solar System

Laboratory recreations of iron‑meteorite cores and geochemical accretion models show Jupiter’s growth blocked cross‑disk transport and produced opposing P/N gradients that favored inner‑system sources for Earth.

Scientists Outline 'Agnostic Biosignature' to Find Life Through Planetary Patterns

Tardigrades Struggle in Martian Soil Simulant, Then Recover After a Water Rinse

Yellowstone Quake Swarm Briefly Rewired a Deep Aquifer’s Chemistry and Microbes

NASA Concludes Deep-Space Laser Demo With Psyche’s Final Downlink at 218 Million Miles

Astronomers Confirm 2025 PN7 as a New Earth Quasi-Moon

Webb Releases Multiwavelength View of the 'Butterfly Star,' Revealing Dust Settling in a Planet-Building Disk

Autonomous Synthetic Lichens Enable 3D-Printed Structures on Mars