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A large asteroid is set to make history when it passes within 20,000 miles of our planet before the decade is out.
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A space plane once hoped to be a successor to NASA's space shuttles may ultimately never make it to orbit.
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This unfathomable scenario would be, as you might expect, absolutely devastating for all life on our planet.
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The shortlist was picked out of more than 6,000 candidates based on a range of factors pertaining to habitability.
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Divers accompanied by a TV crew had been scouring parts of the infamous region for a World War II plane wreckage.
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This distant world, known as L98-59d, offers a literal interpretation of the phrase 'the floor is lava'.
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The discovery of a distant solar system with its planets in a seemingly impossible order has been revealed this week.
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Scientists have found evidence of a subterranean labyrinth of tunnels hidden beneath the planet's surface.
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Another potentially habitable world has been discovered thanks to data collected by the Kepler Space Telescope.
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Astronomers have detected an enigmatic free floating planet approximately 10,000 light-years from Earth.
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The mysterious extrasolar world was spotted with the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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New evidence suggests that the Red Planet is capable of producing lightning - something never seen there before.
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The mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart could soon be solved... but it might have to wait a little while longer.
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Situated just 18.2 light-years away, this newfound extrasolar world is in orbit around a red dwarf star.
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Later this month, researchers will be heading to Nikumaroro to look for direct physical evidence of Earhart's plane.
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Scientists have discovered evidence of methane gas on Makemake - a tiny world situated beyond the orbit of Pluto.
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Scientists have identified mudstone rocks on the Martian surface that may be indicative of life in the planet's distant past.
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Dark matter accumulating in the cores of particular large planets could help us to finally confirm its existence.
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New research has highlighted the likelihood that Ceres would have once provided habitable conditions.
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The enigmatic plane is thought to be used to evaluate the stealth profiles of other aircraft in mid-air.