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Two Meteor Showers Will Brighten the Skies on Monday
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European heatwave fueled by human-induced climate change, study finds
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Amazon to invest in Cork wind farm
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Prince Harry 'gives barefoot speech' at Google's secretive climate change conference
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NASA Satellite Discovers Planet That Could Potentially Support Life
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Asteroid bigger than Empire State Building is passing by Earth
On Aug. 10, Asteroid 2006 QQ23 will fly within 0.049 astronomical units (4.6 million miles) of Earth at about 10,400 mph (16,740 km/h). Astronomers estimated ...
Space agency spots closest ’habitable’ Earth-like planet yet — NASA exoplanet discovery
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission created to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable worl...
Weather Alerts Issued as Two Tropical Cyclones Approach Hawaii
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It's Good! Hubble Telescope Scores Big with Football-Shaped Alien Planet
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See the Milky Way's 3-D structure
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Bill Nye-promoted satellite sails into space on sunbeams
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Universal announces mysteriously 'Epic' new theme park
The concept art for the park is featured above. The new park will be part of a larger complex, complete with entertainment district, restaurants, hotels and sho...
NASA discovers 3 new planets; 1 potentially habitable ‘super Earth’
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NASA's TESS mission discovers three new worlds
They include a small, rocky planet that is slightly larger than Earth and two gaseous planets about twice Earth's size. The potentially habitable planet and...
NASA Reveals Partnerships Advancing Moon, Mars Tech
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Scientists said the threat of collision of the Earth with meteor shower
According to NASA , like other meteor showers , the rocks from the Delta Aquariid are fragments that came from a comet or asteroid. NASA said the meteor showe...
Two-metre dinosaur bone discovered in south of France
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More than 160 environmental, land rights activists murdered in 2018, report says
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Two hurricanes, one a Category 4, are moving toward Hawaii
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Chandrayaan-2 now 3 steps closer to moon, says ISRO
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NASA Finds Planet Similar to Earth
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A black moon is coming on July 31. Here’s what that means
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Nuclear explosion level asteroid had close-shave with Earth
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A billionaire bought every seat on SpaceX's first flight to the moon
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National Hurricane Center: Tropical Wave has low chance of developing
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