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Spacecraft is first to bring asteroid dust to Earth
A capsule from the Japanese probe Hayabusa returned to Earth earlier this year, but only now is it clear that the dust inside it came from an asteroid
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Solved: mystery of the meteor-shedding asteroid
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Earth
Cosmic accidents: Killer asteroid with a silver lining
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Ancient Greeks spotted Halley’s comet
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Physics
Trojan asteroids make planetary scientist lose sleep
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Jupiter attacked for third time in 13 months
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Neptune ‘dead zones’ hold more rocks than asteroid belt
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NASA mulls sending part of space station to an asteroid
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Cosmic Trojans may sneak comets towards Earth
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Early stages of crater birth captured on camera
By firing a gun into the sand, we can see the moment of crater formation when debris is flung fastest and farthest
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Asteroid hunters part-blinded by the military
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Hayabusa: The falcon has landed 鈥� what’s it caught?
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Deeper impact: Did mega-meteors rattle our planet?
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Earth
Cosmic ‘dandruff’ may have brought carbon to Earth
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