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As the Trump administration continues to slash federal spending, rumored cuts to science funding has left the future of Big ...

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T'puram: Students at Cotton Hill Girls Higher Secondary School can now observe planets and stars up close, as an astronomy ...

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Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

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Starting late on March 13 and continuing into the early-morning hours of March 14, our natural satellite will pass through ...

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