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Where do meteorites come from?

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Where do meteorites come from?

Most meteorites are bits of asteroid, which are themselves leftovers from the formation of the solar system.

astronaut on moon

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NASA is going back to the moon but most people in the US don't want to

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Tiangong space station

LightSail 2

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SpaceX is about to launch a sail propelled through space by sunshine

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Mercury

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How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets

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Don't miss: men on the moon, robots in orbit and museums in the street

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Don't miss: men on the moon, robots in orbit and museums in the street

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A comet in the solar system

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ESA plans triple spacecraft to lurk in wait for a speedy comet

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Albert Einstein smoking a pip

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Albert Einstein

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

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Cosmic microwave background

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Cosmic microwave background

Cosmic microwave background is a sea of radiation that provides us with evidence for the big bang. The big bang is now orthodoxy, although without a theory than unifies general relativity with quantum theory, we’re stuck in explaining exactly what it was or why it happened.

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General relativity

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Hubble Space Telescope

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Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet

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Second law of thermodynamics