Apollo 8 astronaut behind iconic photo killed in plane crash
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Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Starship missions both hit spaceflight milestones this week
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Study finds fresh water and key conditions for life appeared on Earth a half-billion years earlier than thought
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Ancient crystals suggest freshwater on Earth 4 billion years ago
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Evidence of Earth's First Rains Found Trapped Within Primordial Crystals
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SpaceX Shares Unseen Clip Of Starship Booster’s Soft Landing – Tower Catch In Flight 5 Says Musk
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Saturday Citations: Praising dogs; the evolution of brown fat; how SSRIs relieve depression. Plus: Boeing's Starliner
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China’s lunar probe successfully lifts off from the far side of the Moon
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Blastoff! SpaceX launches Starlink batch, nails 300th booster landing!
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SpaceX launches Starlink 10-1 mission from Cape Canaveral in Florida
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NASA is commissioning 10 studies on Mars Sample Return—most are commercial
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NASA wants new ideas for its troubled Mars Sample Return mission
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NASA puts $10M down on Mars sample return proposals from Blue Origin, SpaceX and others
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Hiking family discovers rare T. rex fossil
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Teenage T. rex fossil discovered by 3 young boys in North Dakota
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Rare astronomical event will be visible from Earth for a week this year
Astronomers await the rare ‘Blaze Star’ this summer
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At long last: Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket set to debut on July 9
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The storied Hubble telescope has gone into 'safe mode.' Here's NASA's plan to keep it alive
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Webb Telescope Uncovers a Mysterious Carbon Treasure Trove Around Young Star
Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star
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Where To See The Northern Lights Tonight
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Cosmic bombshell may change everything we know about the Milky Way galaxy
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Gaia: Milky Way's last major collision was surprisingly recent
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Milky Way’s last big collision with another galaxy was much more recent than previously thought
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NASA Invites Media to Cover the Rollout of Artemis II Moon Rocket
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'The big one': Researchers gain clearest picture yet of fault that threatens the Pacific Northwest
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Scientists mapped the Cascadia fault and found most dangerous segment
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Geoscientists found the most dangerous part of a famous West Coast fault
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Researchers gain clear picture of fault that threatens Pacific Northwest
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Neanderthals and humans interbred 47,000 years ago for nearly 7,000 years, research suggests
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'Major' Archaeological Development May Help Rewrite Early Human History
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Largest known genome is within this plain plant on the forest floor, study says
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Space photo of the week: James Webb and Chandra telescopes spot a 'lighthouse' pointed at Earth
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Mars: New Research Challenges Existence of Liquid Water Lake Under Planet's South Pole
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Who owns the Moon? A new space race means it could be up for grabs
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Full moon June 2024: When to see the Strawberry Moon in Kentucky
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Smallest known great ape, which lived 11m years ago, found in Germany
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Tiny great ape fossils identified as new species from Europe
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Scientists Intrigued by Signal From Space Repeating Every Hour
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Radio signal from space repeats every hour, defying explanation
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NASA Planning Cutting-Edge Space Telescope to Find Alien Worlds Like Earth
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Suppressing Starlight: How to Find Other Earths
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NASA Funds Tech Maturation Projects For Future Telescopes
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At the Dawn of Time: MIT Physicists Link Dark Matter to “Super-Charged” Microscopic Black Holes
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Scientists Stunned By Bizarre New Species In Ocean's Darkest Depths
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American professor discovers massive new long-necked dinosaur that lived 210MILLION-years-ago while...
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Astronauts test SpaceX Starship hardware and spacesuits for Artemis 3 moon mission (photos)
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Explosive 'devil comet' grows seemingly impossible 2nd tail after close flyby of Earth — but it's not what it seems
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James Webb telescope finds carbon at the dawn of the universe, challenging our understanding of when life could have emerged
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Siberia's 'Gateway to Hell' is rapidly expanding in size, scientists discover
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Scientists discover 'Gateway to Hell' in Siberia is expanding rapidly
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Brain Cells May Actually Try to Predict The Future During Sleep
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Jupiter's raging gas cyclones may actually mirror Earth's oceans. Here's how
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Tiny Overlooked Creatures May Have Triggered Explosion of Life on Earth
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Arrokoth the 'space snowman' probably tastes like sweet soap
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New 'Sugar World' Discovered in Kuiper Belt
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This Dwarf Planet Is Basically a Sweet Red Snow Cone
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Weekend reads: Major Alzheimer's paper slated for retraction; research dog breeder pleads guilty; biomedical retractions quadruple
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Enigmatic Triassic Thalattosaur Was Able to Move on Land, Paleontologists Say
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'Living rocks' off Saudi Arabia's Sheybarah Island offer glimpse of how life on Earth began
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New Study Says Life on Earth May Have Originated in Saudi Arabia 3.48 Billion Years Ago
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Scientists Have Discovered a New Way to Levitate Water
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