Philipp Heck

Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt collects samples of lunar soil from the moon in 1972.

One small grain of moon dust, one giant leap for lunar studies

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How to Cool a Planet With Extraterrestrial Dust


Asteroid crash

Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age

Blue Meteorite Crystals Reveal the Sun's Wild Youth

Blue Meteorite Crystals Reveal the Sun's Wild Youth


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The Young Sun’s Outbursts Were Trapped in Blue Crystals From Outer Space

The Young Sun’s Outbursts Were Trapped in Blue Crystals From Outer Space


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Blue crystals in meteorites show that sun behaved like ‘high-energy toddler’

Today's rare meteorites were common 466 million years ago, study finds