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This long-duration comet will make its closest approach to Earth this fall, before disappearing into the outer solar system ...

An academic dives into "the other space race" as countries work to send satellites and other objects into orbit around the ...

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Astronomers and wildlife experts are up in arms over an unprecedented approach to maximizing solar energy generation.

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