Earth's carbon points to planetary smashup

Monday, September 5, 2016 - 14:31 in Astronomy & Space

Research suggests that virtually all of Earth's life-giving carbon could have come from a collision about 4.4 billion years ago between Earth and an embryonic planet similar to Mercury.

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