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Moon 100mn years older than previously thought: Study

A new study suggests that the Moon is 4.51 billion years old, some 100 million years older than previously believed.

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Thousands marvel at full solar eclipse in Chilean sky

Cheers rang out on Tuesday as the solar eclipse over Chile reached totality and darkness fell over Coquimbo's La Silla observatory.

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NASA’s Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space

NASA's Voyager 2 probe has left the protective bubble around the Sun and is flying through interstellar space, the US space agency says.

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NASA’s four-eyed telescope launches to seek alien worlds

NASA’s TESS space telescope has soared into the sky atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in an attempt to detect more Earth-like planets.

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NASA to launch biggest planet hunter space telescope

NASA says it will send its newest space telescope, TESS, into orbit to carry out the biggest planet-hunting mission ever.

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Sun to cool down in next 30 years: Study

Scientists say our Sun will likely enter an 11-year cooldown cycle in the next 30 years, but the phase has no effect on global warming.

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TRAPPIST-1 worlds revisited, new hopes rise

A new study says at least three out of the seven planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system may have Earth-like atmospheres.

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