In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

From the night of September 7 to the early morning of September 8, 2025, a spectacular total lunar eclipse will occur, ...

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The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies ...