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In a first, scientists spotted an ‘interstellar visitor’ in our solar system

November 10, 2017Science

The quarter-mile-wide hunk of space rock is affectionately being called “A/2017 U1.”

An artist’s rendering of icy objects in the Kuiper Belt.

What caused this space object’s weird orbit? ‘It was totally Planet Nine,’ one astronomer says.

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Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy shortly after landing near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

She’s Italy’s rock star astronaut. And she has landed safely back home

June 11, 2015Science
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