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Did an alien spacecraft just fly by Earth? That’s the question a lot of people, including Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, are asking right now. A massive interstellar object called ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

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