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Why was the early Earth so hot? The heat wasn’t just coming from the inside

When you think about a large asteroid impact, you might imagine a moment of devastation: a violent collision, a blast of heat and debris, and then years of atmospheric disruption and damage left behind.

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Pluto and the Love, Hate, Longing: What Our Relationship With a Demoted Planet Says About Us

We Gave It a Name, So It Became OursPluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, a 24-year-old farm boy from Kansas working at the Lowell Observatory. An 11-year-old British girl named Venetia Burney suggested the name. Her grandfather passed it along. The International Astronomical Union accepted it. And just…

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Where is the 3I/ATLAS Now? Harvard Physicist Claims 12-Billion-Year-Old Relic Is an Alien Probe

Astronomers studying the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS say it could be a 12‑billion‑year‑old relic formed in near‑absolute‑zero conditions, while Nasa dismisses claims it is an alien probe.

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Strange interstellar comet speculated to be alien spacecraft is older than Solar System

Scientists say comet represents preserved fragment of ancient planetary system

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12 billion years old, this interstellar comet is older than our Solar System

One year ago, on July 1 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the Solar System. Detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the object was quickly recognised as something special.

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Nasa finds ‘wobbling peanut’ in space

Asteroid ‘Donaldjohanson’ is a test run for a mission that could change our understanding of how the solar system formed

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These nearly invisible crystals could rewrite what we know about the early Solar System

Moon impact 3.5 billion years ago reveals hidden Solar System history through tiny mineral grains. The discovery shows asteroid bombardment continued long after the Late Heavy Bombardment period. Researchers found baddeleyite crystals inside lunar meteorite NWA 12593, dated nearly 3.486 billion years old. The evidence connects impacts on the Moon,…

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57 light-years away, a Pink Planet is raining salt, here's why

Fifty-seven light-years away, a striking pink planet is showing scientists just how diverse the universe can be. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal an atmosphere filled with water vapor, methane, and even clouds made of salt. These unusual weather conditions are offering rare clues about how distant planets…

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Was life delivered to Earth by asteroids with a helping hand from Jupiter?

Earth may have gotten some of the key ingredients for life from asteroids in the inner solar system, but not without assistance from Jupiter.

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Alien Probes Could Be Hiding In Solar System Beyond Our Sight, NASA Study Suggests

A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to rule them out. From misidentified rocket boosters to blurry moon maps, it suggests we have barely begun to look for extraterrestrial artefacts.

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Comet crash or ice volcano? Scientists are stumped by a secret world past Pluto, and it may be wearing a secret atmosphere

2002 XV93 atmosphere mystery stuns space scientists as a distant Kuiper Belt object reveals unexpected signs of activity. The 470-kilometer icy world challenges old Solar System theories. Researchers believe possible gas, dust, impacts, or icy volcanoes may explain this rare cosmic discovery. The finding shows even small worlds can hold…

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Asteroid or comet? Meteor or meteorite? How to identify and classify the rocks you see streaking through the sky

Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky?

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Sonic booms from meteors can release the energy of hundreds of tons of TNT – here’s how they work

As humans, we live out our lives on a planet that is constantly sweeping through a cosmic ocean littered with ancient debris from the formation of the solar system. For the most part, our world glides silently through space, shielded by Earth’s thin atmosphere.

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An ancient piece of the moon found in Africa hints at a long-ago collision that turned the lunar surface molten

A meteorite shows evidence that an ancient crash on the moon 3.5 billion years ago was so powerful, it turned the surface molten.

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In 1995, astronomers found a planet circling a Sun-like star, and the solar system stopped looking unique

In 1995, scientists made a revolutionary find with the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, a massive exoplanet in a tight orbit around its star. This startling revelation contradicted prior assumptions about how planets form, opening our eyes to the possibility of planetary systems that aren't structured like our own.

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2 long-vanished 'super Earths' once orbited near Neptune in our outer solar system, new study hints

Our solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The findings paint a more crowded picture of the early outer solar system than previously thought.

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What is Planet Nine, and where is it? Mystery of large hidden planet beyond Neptune explained

What is Planet Nine, and where is it? The question has fascinated astronomers for years. Scientists believe a massive undiscovered planet may exist in the outer Solar System. Although no telescope has directly observed it, unusual movements of Kuiper Belt objects, Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects, sednoids, and other distant bodies continue…

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Why do Venus and Jupiter meet up in the sky so often? It's a symptom of a solar system that supports life on Earth

As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the same that are critical for life to survive on Earth.

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Upcoming telescopes could shed light on dark matter – astronomers are looking for these ‘fingerprints’ of the elusive substance

NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the Moon through the Artemis program and ultimately send humans to Mars highlight just how far space exploration has come. Yet while the Moon and Mars remain compelling destinations filled with scientific mysteries, looking beyond our solar system raises even deeper questions about the…

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Alien Hope Dented as Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shows No Signs of 'Otherworldly Tech' in Radio Scans

SETI Institute's radio scans of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS found no evidence of alien technology, confirming its natural origins.

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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is blasting out a bunch of methane. Here's why that's weird

The James Webb Space Telescope observed a large amount of methane around 3I/ATLAS, revealing just how different it is from comets from our solar system.

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Scientists search for signs of alien life on a visitor from another solar system

3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar object – leading to suggestions that it could be an alien spacecraft

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If 3I/ATLAS isn’t an alien probe, why is it silent on radio signals but rich in methane from another star system?

If 3I/ATLAS isn’t an alien probe, its discovery may be even more important. Scientists detected no radio signals from the interstellar comet despite an extensive search for technosignatures. Instead, the James Webb Space Telescope found unusually high methane and carbon dioxide levels. Those findings suggest 3I/ATLAS formed in a vastly…

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Meteorite found in Sahara desert may be 1st evidence of lost solar system world

A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert contains evidence of a long-lost moon-size world that existed just a few million years after the solar system formed.

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'Hot Jupiter' winds blasting at over 15,000 mph reveal 1st evidence of exoplanets with magnetic fields

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of magnetic worlds beyond the solar system thanks to their high-speed, violent winds, representing a major step forward in exoplanet research.

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