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Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

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James Webb Space Telescope captures HH 30’s disc, revealing dust movement, jets, and planetary formation processes.

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions, we have to first understand the process of how stars form. While the composition of gas and dust in a precursor molecular cloud is ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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