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Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...

The findings suggest that astronomers’ widely accepted cosmology models might be missing something—meaning the longstanding mystery known as the “Hubble tension” continues ...

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An unusual approach to spotting tiny asteroids uses James Webb Space Telescope data in a boost for planetary defense research ...