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The best way to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid may be to drill into it and hurl the spoil into space
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The planned Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope could find hundreds of thousands of baby galaxies in the early universe
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Why is NASA bringing back retired engineers who worked on the 1960s Apollo lunar programme? talked to two of them to find out
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Astronauts may one day have to don skintight spacesuits that resemble Spider-Man’s costume
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An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a new transiting extrasolar planet. The planet HD189733b, in the constellation Vulpecula, was detected and studied by the combination of two different methods, radial velocities and photometric transits, using the telescopes at Haute-Provence Observatory (OHP).
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Astronomers discover new transiting planet