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NASA's Voyager 'appears' to have left solar system: study

Voyager 1 - AFP

More than 35 years after it launched on a mission to explore the cosmos, NASA's unmanned Voyager spacecraft appears to have left the solar system and is in a "new region" of space, said a study Wednesday.

 

Asteroids may have nurtured seeds of life

The chemical building blocks that make life possible on Earth may have aged to perfection in asteroids, according to a new study.

 

New Study Finds the Moon Is Shrinking

New Study Finds the Moon Is Shrinking

The moon is shrinking ever so slightly, but there is no cause for alarm, according to a new study that has discovered a clutch of previously unseen faults on the lunar surface from photos taken by a NASA probe.

 

Rare find: Failed star circling sun-like star

A rare sun-like star that is both young and relatively close to Earth has been found to be harboring an even weirder object - a failed star locked in a close orbit around its host, according to a new study.

 

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