Space
That interstellar asteroid could be a shard of a shredded planet
'Oumuamua, an oddly shaped asteroid from beyond our solar system, recently passed by. It may have formed when a planet was ripped into fragments by its star
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We got a good look at the interstellar asteroid and it’s weird
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Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star
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Dawn spacecraft approved to spend another year studying Ceres
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A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995
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The mysterious bright spots on Ceres may have a common origin
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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid
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Earth
The hottest place ever recorded on Earth’s surface was 2370°C
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Earth
Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth in closest fly-by since 1890
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Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly
The oldest intact asteroids hint that planets didn’t grow by slowly gathering small space rocks, but came from rapidly collapsing dust
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Asteroids may have been giant mudballs in the early solar system
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How Jupiter split the asteroid belt in two shows its great age
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Rings and asteroids may explain ‘alien megastructure’ star
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Humans
What vision of doom made Hawking seek a faster Earth exit plan?
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