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Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

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Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

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Manager of Western Australia's South West Interconnected System Western Power has been allocated $20.8 million from the ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...