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New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

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Doing this even for planets within our solar system is difficult. But BD+05 4868 Ab will allow us to directly measure the mineral composition of a terrestrial planet outside our solar system,” Mr. Hon ...

Doing this even for planets within our solar system is difficult. But BD+05 4868 Ab will allow us to directly measure the mineral composition of a terrestrial planet outside our solar system ...