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A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

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This strange object near the solar system's edge may be a rare example of the 3-body problem in our own cosmic neighborhood.