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Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, ...

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Discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed visitor from another ...

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...

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Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

New geothermal energy findings in Nevada make massive expansion of the clean energy source look more likely than ever, ...

Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

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