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The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

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Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and most stars have planets, so logically, planets orbiting two stars at once should be common. However, in reality, ...

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