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U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

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Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

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REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, ...

The inner solar system spins much more slowly than the laws of modern physics predict, and a new study may help to explain why. A thin disk of gas and dust — known as an accretion disk ...