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A “potentially hazardous” pyramid-size asteroid is about to zoom past Earth at around 48,000 mph (77,300 km/h) this week as…

New photos have revealed the “love planet” Venus looking unrecognizable as it prepares to line up for a striking conjunction…

The skeleton of a child with both Neanderthal and modern-human features has been dated to around 28,000 years ago, according…

The closest ever Einstein ring, picked up by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope ESA Astronomers have identified the…

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of…

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives.…