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In late October, my friend and I took a three-hour drive to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California. It’s a beautiful place for hiking and for unusual geological formations, and it compl

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The year 2025 has been a vintage one for astronomy. In January, we were hooked on reports of a building-sized asteroid on course to collide with Earth. The risk was quickly downgraded from worrying to

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