A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The results shed new light on how the chemical building blocks ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PhD candidate Linda Losurdo. (CREDIT: Fiona Wolf/The University of Sydney) At the University of Sydney, a Ph.D. student has ...

Blue oceans, green forests, a cozy blanket of oxygen. Our planet is a super comfy home. It’s hard to imagine there was ever a time it didn’t exist. I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She ...

Earth likely formed from inner Solar System material alone, raising fresh questions about the origin of water on our planet.

PhD candidate and lead author of the study Linda Losurdo in the plasma physics laboratory at the University of Sydney. A Sydney PhD student has recreated a tiny piece of the Universe inside a bottle ...