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Orionid meteor shower: Keep an eye out for meteors in the sky this weekend

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Rare rock formations hint at what possible life on ancient Mars looked like

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Teen tyrannosaur had a taste for baby dinos, rare fossil reveals

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Neptune and Uranus look like twins in updated color images

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Rare skin fossil is oldest by 130 million years

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‘Frost quakes’ were felt around Chicago this week. Here’s what scientists do and don’t know about the seismic phenomenon

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‘Old smoker’ stars revealed at the heart of the Milky Way

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Astronomers spot a ‘super-Earth’ 137 light-years away

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The woman behind the next big thing in cancer treatment

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