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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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Astronomers have discovered amazing fragments of a rare meteorite on the Moon, which may help reveal the secrets of the ...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

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Scientists have uncovered a mysterious relic from an area of the moon that has never been explored by humans until now.

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