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Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few million years, new ...

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The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...

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NASA has confirmed that Earth has gained a temporary cosmic companion in the form of asteroid 2025 PN7, which will orbit our ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

NASA is studying interstellar object 3I/ATLAS to refine its planetary defence systems, using the comet's rare trajectory as a ...