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An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to include the protection of Earth's orbit in the U.N.

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Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every ...

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Trump’s Mars pledge elicited a huge grin and enthusiastic double thumbs up from billionaire and top Mars colonization ...

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MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...