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Next summer, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its way there, it has studied ...

A meteorite found in the Sahara is forcing scientists to rethink what kinds of worlds once circled the young sun. The rock, ...

The proposed superhighway provides a route by which spacecraft can be sent into the far reaches of the Sun’s planetary system in the fastest way possible. The data gathered to establish the route also ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

(Ianm35/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Solar System is one of the comforting constants of human existence. No matter what else ...

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This small, unassuming mineral may be older than Earth itself. Krotite reminds us of the vast timescales and surprising ...

Public Night at the Oil Region Astronomy Learning Center, home of the Bedow Memorial Observatory, will be held Saturday at 8 p.m. Tim Spuck, director of Education and Public Engagement at ...

The transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 offered a way to calculate the true size of the Solar System. Getting to the right place to observe them was another matter entirely.

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