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The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted with dust, forming the minerals that now make up about 80% of Bennu. Certain ...

Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explains how the ...