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When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

Astronomers have discovered icy rocks in the outer solar system that seem to defy the laws of physics, suggesting the ...

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

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

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Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.

The Finance and Property Committee also considered the proposal Dec. 2 in closed session but did not take any action. Here's ...

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Discover what happens during a solar flare: sun eruptions, coronal mass ejection impacts, and space weather effects on Earth ...