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A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

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Everything that has a beginning will have an end. From organisms to planets, the arc remains the same for all parts of the ...

Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our sun millions of years ago.

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For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and in doing so have solved ...

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