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Rockets rarely blast straight upward and keep going in that direction. Instead, most orbital launches curve eastward, leaning ...

As the final month of the year begins, early evenings offer just one naked-eye planet. Fortunately for us, that lone world is Saturn. The ringed planet lies high in the northwest as twilight fades, ...