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Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to find out ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...