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Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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What I appreciate about Alexandria Public Schools is our organizational efforts, both past and present, to support choice for ...

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An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

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Last week, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) began the pilot drill for the Million Year Ice Core Project (MYIC), a ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...