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What Dust From Space Tells Us About Ourselves

By Natalie Wolchover
February 4, 2021
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Micrometeorites constantly fall on every corner of Earth. Matthew Genge is using these shards of interplanetary space to understand Earth and its place in the solar system.

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The Woman Who Gets Called When a Piece of Mars Falls From the Sky

By Rebecca Boyle
December 18, 2018
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Planetary geologist Meenakshi Wadhwa uses Martian meteorites to trace the history of our solar system.

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A Quasicrystal’s Shocking Origin

By Natalie Wolchover
July 8, 2016
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By blasting a stack of minerals with a four-meter-long gun, scientists have found a new clue about the backstory of a very strange rock.

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In a Grain, a Glimpse of the Cosmos

By Natalie Wolchover
June 13, 2014
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When scientists traced a museum rock back to its origins, they uncovered mysteries about the early solar system.

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