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Astronomers, utilizing the Gemini South telescope in Chile, have reconstructed a 3D model of the city-killer asteroid 2024 ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

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