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Vladimir Putin jokes that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is a 'secret weapon' as the mysterious object sweeps past Earth.

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Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

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Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

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Astronomers discovered the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid, taking the tally to 40,155 per NASA (as of the first week of ...

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