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Roughly triangular pale off-white rock with brown and black flecks and a band green crystal running vertically across it. A ruler shows that it is about 50 millimeters across.

Aluminum Isotope in the Early Solar System

by Andy Fell
September 05, 2023

Pale blue planet, with some light clouds, lit from the right against a black background

Understanding Super-Earth Waterworlds

by Andy Fell
August 08, 2022

Red-brown planet with a small northern ice cap.

Martian Meteorite Upsets Planet Formation Theory

by Andy Fell
June 16, 2022

Star and protoplanetary disk

Deep Mantle Krypton Reveals Earth’s Outer Solar System Ancestry

by Becky Oskin
December 15, 2021

Meteorites Show Transport of Material in Early Solar System

by Andy Fell
September 08, 2020

Photo of shock lab that will be part of the new UC Davis Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures

Understanding Matter at Atom-Crushing Densities

by Melissa Blouin
August 10, 2020

Professor Discusses Significance of Moon Landing on UC Davis Live Friday

by Melissa Blouin
July 11, 2019

Star and protoplanetary disk

Mantle Neon Illuminates Earth’s Formation

by Andy Fell
December 05, 2018

Scientist Who Studies How Planets Form Named MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow

by Andy Fell
October 04, 2018

Moon emerging from synestia

How the Moon Formed Inside a Vaporized Earth Synestia

by Andy Fell
February 28, 2018

Science & Technology

Planet, disk and planet and synestia

Synestia, a New Type of Planetary Object

by Andy Fell
May 22, 2017

Science & Technology

New Theory Explains How the Moon Got There

by Andy Fell
October 31, 2016

Science & Technology

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