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4 Facts About Asteroids You May Not Have Known

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Earthbound Space Dust Comes From Solar System's Edge

Illustration of Comet Encke

Swarm of Near-Earth Comets Linked to Recent Ice Giant Breakup

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Planet Earth

An Asteroid Didn't Kill Off the Dinosaurs — a Comet Did 

Interstellar Comet Clark looms behind a world tinged orange by fire in the new disaster movie "Greenland." (Credit: STXfilms)

Attack of the Interstellar Comet

planet nine - R. Hurt/IPAC/Caltech

5 NASA Science Projects That Can Help Teach Kids Astronomy

Catch an interstellar comet by the tail: A hovering spacecraft (statite) would lie in wait, then use the Sun's gravity to dive in toward an object of interest. (Credit: Richard Linares)

How to Explore the Stars Without Ever Leaving Home

An "asteroid field" according to the Star Wars movies. In reality, the asteroid belt in our solar system is mostly a whole lot of nothingness. (Credit: Lucasfilm)

Space is Big, Empty and Very, Very Lonely

'Oumuamua - ESO

Alien Space Rock ‘Oumuamua May be Chunk of a Shredded World

Proxima b Illustration

Could Alien Life Travel on Interstellar Asteroids and Comets like 'Oumuamua?

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Scientists Chronicle the Shifting Colors of a Comet's 'Seasons'

Borisov interstellar alien comet

The First Interstellar Comet Could Disintegrate When it Gets Close to the Sun

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彗星

关于小行星的四个你可能不知道的事实

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不是小行星杀死了恐龙——是彗星

星际彗星的攻击

5个NASA科学项目，助您教孩子天文学

无需离家即可探索星辰

宇宙浩瀚、空旷且极其、极其孤寂

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外星生命能像“奥陌陌”一样搭乘星际小行星和彗星旅行吗？

科学家记录彗星“季节”色彩的变化

第一颗星际彗星可能在接近太阳时瓦解

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