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Israel has sent a delegation to Egypt to see if there is enough ‘common ground’ to negotiate an extension to the truce.

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The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

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Don’t blame astronomers for the odds that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from 3.1 per cent to ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have made detailed observations of the mysterious exoplanet ...

A research team studying these galaxies found that around half of the ones they investigated showed signs of motion that defy ...