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The aliens from Mars attacked in waves quickly overpowering Earth’s human defenses with their far superior technology. Then ...

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A Guatemalan national in the U.S. illegally — who authorities say entered as a "gotaway" and had never been encountered by federal immigration officials — has been charged in a fatal stabbing in ...

Deep within massive rocky exoplanets, hidden oceans of molten rock may be generating powerful magnetic fields in an ...

Scientists have discovered natural space weather stations that exist around distant stars because these stations can determine the habitability of nearby planets. The research results which Luke Bouma ...