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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

Artist's illustration of an asteroid belt around a young star

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

How do spacecraft avoid collisions in the asteroid belt?

Smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected found hiding in JWST data

Earth’s gravity gave the Moon an early facelift

The sun during the winter solstice. Pixabay/ AlainAudet

Science, Solar System

Why the winter solstice is the longest night every year, and when it happens in 2024

WISE all-sky survey

Robotic Spaceflight

A look back at NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade

Graph of galaxy rotation showing dark matter's influence

Does dark matter affect our solar system?

Venus may never have had oceans