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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

As Sussan Ley compared the First Fleet's arrival to billionaire Elon Musk's bid to explore Mars in an Australia Day speech, Albury's disheartened Indigenous community quietly gathered to watch a ...

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