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The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

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Gov. Josh Green is calling for a renewed push to expand rooftop solar. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote speaks with the head of ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

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A disabled Florida veteran is facing foreclosure after purchasing a solar system he thought was financed through the Florida ...