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For a long time, Earth’s ending seemed settled. In about five billion years, the sun will swell into a giant, the inner Solar ...

Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner Solar System; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originated beyond Jupiter’s orbit. A group of ...

Moon impact 3.5 billion years ago reveals hidden Solar System history through tiny mineral grains. The discovery shows ...

After spending nearly eight years crossing the inner Solar System, ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo spacecraft has reached one of ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

One year ago, on July 1 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the Solar System. Detected by ...

PARIS, France — An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar ...

We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally. Occasionally, some wayward gravitational perturbation will knock one of ...

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