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The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

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ESA's JUICE spacecraft unexpectedly photographed interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, but thermal protection near the Sun means the ...

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On 23 November, skywatchers were stunned as Saturn looked strangely bare in the night sky, a rare cosmic moment that made its ...

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