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Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

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An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

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The system was installed on the side of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module on the ISS. From there, the rig of 4K ...