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A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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The United Nations has activated its Planetary Security Protocol for the first time in history. The catalyst for this ...

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