'A glorious dawn launch': NASA's newest space telescope has left the Earth

The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system

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The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.

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A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah

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