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A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...

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It is true that astronomers discovered "a relatively short-lived quasi-satellite of Earth" and dubbed it 2025 PN7, according ...