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New York Giants QB Jameis Winston tells a hilarious story about rookie RB Cam Skattebo, and says he's "from a different planet." ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...