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The Moon’s epic ‘grand canyons’ were gouged out in 10 minutes by an asteroid strike

Solar system planets

Why do the solar system’s planets have different compositions?

Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples

Artist's concept of Eris

20 years ago, the discovery of Eris spelled doom for planet Pluto

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Does a comet’s period change because it loses mass every time it nears the Sun?

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

BepiColombo nabs its best views yet of Mercury

Pluto may have ‘kissed’ Charon to capture it

The star Lambda Herculis

Where is the solar system heading?

Does Planet Nine exist?

The middle-aged Moon had a magnetic field

Dark comet

‘Dark comets’ could reveal how Earth got its oceans

Mars Express captures the beauty of a martian frostscape