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A meteorite that lit up the skies above New York City before crash-landing through someone's roof contains evidence of how ...

Scientists reportedly discover an atmosphere around Earth-like planet LHS 1140b, 49 light-years away, raising hopes in the ...

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Did Viking 1 find evidence of life on Mars? Fifty years after the NASA lander touched down, the jury is still out.

Labelled as planet X, prominent astronomers had put it forward as an explanation for Uranus’s orbit, which drifts from the path of orbital motion that physics would expect it to follow. The ...