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A "bus-sized" asteroid being tracked by NASA will zoom safely past the Earth on Wednesday as both celestial objects make a ...

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A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

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Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu parachuted back to Earth after their six-month stay in the country’s Tiangong space ...

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