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For around a year now, the Sidewalk Astronomers have been meeting regularly in D.C. to show people that gazing at the stars ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine just how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032. Here's ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

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