Helium leak delays Boeing’s historic Starliner mission at least another week
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Boeing Starliner launch delayed again, this time due to a helium leak
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Boeing crews prepare for rescheduled first crewed launch of Starliner
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US suffers radio blackouts after being hit by ANOTHER solar storm, NOAA says
By Stacy Liberatore
Dazzling auroras are just a warm-up as more solar storms are likely, scientists say
By Alexandra Witze
Northern lights: Where to see the aurora borealis
By Nathan Diller
More geomagnetic storms remain likely for today as sun continues to erupt X-class flares
By Li Cohen
The epic northern lights display is over. The wait is on for the next.
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MIT researchers discover the universe's oldest stars in our own galactic backyard
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SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on 50th mission of the year (video)
By Mike Wall
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base – Spaceflight Now
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SpaceX planning Tuesday morning launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base
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Tuesday morning Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg SFB announced Monday
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SpaceX launch recap: Starlink 6-58 mission Sunday night from Cape Canaveral, Florida
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Magma world: A volcanic planet is "constantly exploding" with molten lava, astronomers announce
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The surface of this volcanic exoplanet is hotter than some stars
By Keith Cooper
Strange, red-glowing planet may be 'melting from within,' scientists report
By Sharmila Kuthunur
'Io on steroids': Astronomer discovers an exoplanet similar to Jupiter's moon, but with a molten lava surface
By Tarun Mishra
NASA Discovers Gravity-Squeezed World 'Exploding With Volcanoes'
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Scientists solve giant hummingbird mystery — with the help of tiny backpacks
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Exclusive | Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures
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Missed the aurora borealis? Watch for these upcoming celestial sights
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Auroras illuminate night skies around the world, expected to possibly continue through Monday
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Northern lights set the sky aglow amid powerful geomagnetic storm
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Loved the northern lights? Check out these phenomena next.
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Planet Parade: Here's How to See 6 Planets in the Sky on June 3
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A Train on the Moon? NASA Bets on Futuristic Project | Vantage with Palki Sharma
NASA Announces Plans To Build First Railway System On Moon
By Bhavya Sukheja
NASA JPL Proposes Robotic Maglev Train for the Moon
By Ryan Whitwam
NASA details plan to build a levitating robot train on the moon
By Ben Turner
NASA's 1st lunar railway to use levitating robots with no moving parts
By Chris Young
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NASA appoints 1st AI chief to keep agency on 'the cutting edge'
By Mike Wall
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Hubble Space Telescope hasn't had any visitors for 15 years
By Richard Speed
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Discovery of biomarkers in space—conditions on Saturn's moon Enceladus simulated in the laboratory
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Ghostly 'God's Hand' caught on Dark Energy Camera
Dark Energy Camera Captures "God's Hand" Reaching For The Stars
Space photo of the week: 'God's Hand' leaves astronomers scratching their heads
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New telescope images reveal ghostly ‘God’s Hand’ in Milky Way reaching across the cosmos
By Ashley Strickland
New image revealed of "ominous" cometary globule known as "God's Hand" as massive stars tear it apart
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Mysterious Moon Photobombs Jupiter's Great Red Spot in Latest Juno Image
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Scientists Discover Massive Planet as Light And Fluffy as Cotton Candy
By Michelle Starr
Researchers discover "super fluffy" planet with cotton candy-like density
By Aliza Chasan
A massive cotton candy-like exoplanet stumps astronomers
By Laura Baisas
Astronomers discover WASP-193b, a giant planet with a density similar to that of cotton candy
'A Real Anomaly': Astronomers Spot Planet With the Density of Cotton Candy
By Jess Thomson
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Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture
By Jordana Cepelewicz
Harvard and Google Neuroscience Breakthrough: Intricately Detailed 1,400 Terabyte 3D Brain Map
Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain
By Cassandra Willyard
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail
By Carissa Wong
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers
Scientists find 57,000 cells and 150m neural connections in tiny sample of human brain
By Ian Sample
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NASA Visualizes What it Would Be Like to Plunge into a Black Hole – WATCH
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
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Fall into a black hole in mind-bending NASA animation (video)
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Video: Death by black hole looks absolutely stunning
By Michael Irving
NASA simulations show what it would be like to fall in black hole: Video
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How SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn astronauts will attempt the 1st-ever 'all-civilian' spacewalk
By Josh Dinner
SpaceX's Extravehicular Activity suit is revolutionary
SpaceX Shows Off Its New Extravehicular Activity Suit
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SpaceX reveals futuristic new spacesuit for humans to wear on Mars
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Most Daring SpaceX Civilian Mission Will Have Four People Step Out Into the Void at Once
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Chemical analysis of natural CO₂ rise over the last 50,000 years shows that today's rate is 10 times faster
This 50,000-year-old block of ice reveals the true state of CO2 levels now
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Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Is Increasing 10 Times Faster Than at Any Point in the Last 50000 Years
Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever
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Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere
By Oliver Milman
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Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere
James Webb telescope detects 1-of-a-kind atmosphere around 'Hell Planet' in distant star system
By Joanna Thompson
NASA's Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet
A scorching, rocky planet twice Earth's size has a thick atmosphere, scientists say
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Astronomers Find Super-hot ‘Super-Earth’
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Sierra Space's Dream Chaser prepares for pre-launch journey to the Cape – Spaceflight Now
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Sierra Space prepares to ship Dream Chaser to Florida
By Jeff Foust
Dream Chaser mini-shuttle set to take flight at last
By Richard Speed
Sierra Space's 1st Dream Chaser space plane aces key tests. Next stop: Florida launch site.
By Meredith Garofalo
First Dream Chaser spaceplane needs more work when it gets to launch site
By Stephen Clark
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Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 JN16 extremely close encounter: online observation – 14 May 2024
By Gianluca Masi
Car-size asteroid gives Earth a close shave in near-miss flyby (video, photo)
By Sharmila Kuthunur
Asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will skim past Earth today
By Dylan Murray
NASA warns against 368-foot asteroid speeding towards Earth
Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 NJ16 extremely close encounter: a image - 13 May 2024
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Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earth
By Katrina Miller & Delger Erdenesanaa
The mission to retrieve a Mars sample is running into turbulence
By Georgina Torbet
A practical approach to the Mars Sample Return mission
By Robert Zubrin
NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket
By Stephen Clark
C.26 Rapid Mission Design Studies for Mars Sample Return Correction and Other Documents Posted
Mars Sample Return Option Emerges In '2024 Humans To Mars Summit'
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Atoms squished closer together than ever before, revealing seemingly impossible quantum effects
By Victoria Atkinson
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Earth may have had freshwater and continents just 200 million years after forming, ancient crystals reveal
By Richard Pallardy
Europe's Ariane 6 Rocket Is About To Launch – Here's Why It's A Big Deal
By Alfredo Carpineti
Ariane 6 launch could end Europe's rocket crisis, here's why
By Chris Young
Deployment test of the 3Cat-4 L-band antenna inside the thermal vacuum chamber
Liftoff Soon! ESA Ariane 6 Rocket Promises Cheaper, More Flexible Launches
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The countdown begins for Ariane 6 to return one of its strategic pillars to Europe
By Juan Pons
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Quantum Mystery Solved – Scientists Shed Light on Perplexing High-Temperature Superconductors
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Enormous 'God of Destruction' asteroid on its way to Earth
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Boy and grandad find dinosaur footprint in Irchester
By Kris Holland
Galactic Rings of Power: Astronomers Uncover Massive Magnetic Toroids in the Milky Way Halo
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Astronomers discover how energy escapes the galactic center
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Nasa reveals rocket that can travel to Mars in 2 months
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These Rocks Formed in an Ancient Lake on Mars
By Mark Thompson
Synthesis of 13C-depleted organic matter from CO in a reducing early Martian atmosphere
By Tomohiro Usui, Alexis Gilbert & Hiroyuki Kurokawa
Tracing the origins of organic matter in Martian sediments
T-Minus: New SpaceX fashion, a Mars mystery, and more
By Kristin Houser
Oxygen-Rich Rocks on Mars Reveal Similarities to Earth
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New chinchilla-like mammal discovered in Colorado provides new clues about how life bounced back after asteroi
By Stacy Liberatore
Newly-Discovered Species of Mammal Lived 610,000 Years after Dinosaur Extinction
Likely ancestor of all modern hoofed animals identified
By Bob Yirka
Fossil of 65-million-year-old mammal discovered near Colorado Springs
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New mammal found in Colorado dates back to the period just after dinosaur extinction
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NASA and JAXA to operate XRISM as-is despite instrument issue
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Scientists use bamboo to create transparent glass with fireproof power
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Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted
By Ben Turner
Researchers Discover Cancer's 'Fingerprints' Using Geological Technique
By Russell Mclendon
Metabolic footprints of cancer cells may help in early diagnosis, shows study
By Preetha Banerjee
Unique atomic fingerprint of cancer cells discovered in hydrogen atoms
Scientists Reveal Cancer's Atomic Secrets—'Whole New Layer to Medicine'
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Geologists, biologists unearth the atomic fingerprints of cancer
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Exploring the ultrasmall and ultrafast through advances in attosecond science
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Advanced OPA Boosts Energy of Ultrashort Pulses for Attosecond Imaging
Molecular dynamics in real time - A novel spectroscopic method allows ultrafast processes within molecules to be observed
Attosecond Spectroscopy: Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics Advances
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Attosecond core-level spectroscopy reveals real-time molecular dynamics
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Electron vortices in graphene detected for the first time
Vortex Of Electrons Seen In Graphene At Room-Temperature For First Time
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High-Resolution Microscope Reveals Electron Behavior in Graphene
Researchers detect electron vortices in Graphene at room temperature
By Amit Malewar
Electron vortices in graphene detected - “Thanks to our extremely sensitive sensor and high spatial resolution, we didn't even need to cool down the graphene...”
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Why the World Wants to Get Back to the Moon
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Scientists help unravel life's cosmic beginnings
Low-temperature formation of pyridine and (iso)quinoline via neutral–neutral reactions
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Study reveals insights into protein evolution
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Possible hints of life found on exoplanet K2-18b – how excited should we be?
By Ian Whittaker
Debunked: NASA Is About To Confirm Alien Life On Another Planet
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Extraterrestrials Are Clearly a Matter of Faith, Not Science
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Star Wars Tatooine-Style Planet with Two Suns Found Orbiting in the Habitable Zone
By Christopher Plain
Who is most to blame for climate change? Regardless of the answer, global cooperation is critical
By Matthew Rozsa
Japanese scientists propose drug to regrow teeth, promise trials won't bite
By Brandon Vigliarolo
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Study supports theory that humans evolved the ability to run long distances to capture prey
By Bob Yirka
Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans
By Bruce Winterhalder & Eugene Morin
How sweat and stamina helped make humans exceptional runners–and hunters
By Laura Baisas
Did humans evolve to chase down prey over long distances?
By Michael Le Page
Did humans evolve to run long distances?
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