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Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

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Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

Radiation levels at airline flight altitudes briefly reached levels that could be potentially harmful to pregnant women.

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

Like a toddler right before naptime, TRAPPIST-1 is a small yet moody star. This little star, which sits in the constellation ...

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Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...