One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

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Former Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has been accused of "lying" by Helmut Marko in an astonishing interview.

An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...

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A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show that some of their ...

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

Learn how the discovery of a young planet orbiting two suns is revealing how worlds form and survive in binary star systems.

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