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SpaceThe Moon may have formed almost intact within hours of Theia smashing into Earth

Treating ancient Earth and Theia as solid geological bodies transforms simulations of the collision that may have created the Moon.

Joseph Shavit
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SpaceThe case for water plumes on Europa just got much harder to makeJoseph Shavit
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