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A massive 1,000-metre wide asteroid capable of wiping out an entire country is set to narrowly miss ...

A pair of solar eruptions over the weekend have unleashed a severe geomagnetic storm that could disr...

NASA has launched four identical spacecraft on a billion-dollar mission to study the explosive give-...

Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, definitely has an underground ocean, researchers said after confir...

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean but the Red Planet lost 87 per c...

Astronomers using a telescope, fitted with an optics system developed by Indian researchers and coll...

The hunt for Earth-like planets around distant stars could soon become a lot easier, thanks to a new...

Astronomers have identified the closest known flyby of a star that passed our solar system at a dist...