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Standing at the edge of Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona feels like peering into another world—a massive bowl carved into the Earth by a visitor from space that arrived with the subtlety of a ...

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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to Houston next April for an event that looks at the science behind famous ...

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Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high ...

According to one hypothesis, the comet is responsible for giving humans the swastika symbol, thousands of years in the past.

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A hunk of space junk appears to have come in hot and heavy in Australia.

Historian and author William Dalrymple told audience of the remarkable rise and fall of the British East India Company at ...

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