Despite being our planet's closest neighbour, scientists have been grappling with the mystery of our moon's origin for hundreds of years. Since the 1980s, experts have assumed that our lunar satellite ...

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Austin, TX — Astronomers announced today that a mystery object orbiting a star 170 light-years from Earth might have formed from the collision and merger of two protoplanets. The object, known as ...