COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO - APRIL 05: Bob Smith, CEO of Blue Origin speaks during a Q&A on the launch of Project Kuiper Satellite Constellation on April 05, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Photo by Tom Cooper/Getty Images for Amazon)
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Longtime Amazon executive to take over Jeff Bezos’ rocket company
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Asteroid named for Egyptian god of chaos and darkness set for spacecraft flyby
The Queen guitarist and astrophysicist was part of a NASA team bringing an asteroid sample back to Earth.
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Queen’s Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample
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Surprising jellyfish finding challenges what’s known about learning and memory
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen is seen during a drop test in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
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A long-awaited sample from a near-Earth asteroid is about to land in the US
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Astrophysicist explains why NASA milestone is ‘incredible’
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission delivers a sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sunday.
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A long-awaited asteroid sample has landed in the US
The Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range is seen, Monday, July 17, 2023, as recovery teams tour the projected landing ellipse in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
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An asteroid sample is about to land on Earth. Here’s what to expect
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission delivers a sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sunday.
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Long-awaited asteroid sample lands in Utah
Michael Pena stars in A Million Miles Away
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NASA rejected him 11 times before making him an astronaut. Now his life story is a movie
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen is seen during a drop test in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
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A 7-year journey to deliver an asteroid sample to Earth will soon end in Utah
The size of the shoe, which is leather, roughly corresponds to EU 30 (US 12).
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Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old child’s shoe with laces intact
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Richard Dearden
Ancient jawless fish’s head fossilized in 3D hints at evolution of vertebrate skulls
ss069e009949 (May 10, 2023) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio poses for a portrait while working inside the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module. Date Created:2023-05-10
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NASA astronaut sets new record for longest time in space
As above, so below: Deposition, modification, and reutilization of human remains at Marmoles cave (Cueva de los Marmoles: Southern Spain, 4000--1000 cal. BCE) (IMAGE) - View of the cave entrance from inside.
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Ancient humans dug up remains of ancestors to use as tools, study suggests
The tissue samples were taken from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger specimen stored at room temperature at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (pictured here.)
Emilio Mármol Sánchez
Scientists recover RNA from an extinct species for the first time
Selected faceted, 'fancy' colored diamonds from the Argyle diamond mine.
Murray Rayner
Rare cache of pink diamonds formed when a supercontinent broke apart, study says
Containers of Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) CHICAGO - OCTOBER 22: Monopoly games made by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro, are offered for sale at a Toys R Us store October 22, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. Hasbro today reported a 62 percent rise in quarterly profit. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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The ‘Mandela Effect’ describes the false memories many of us share. But why can’t scientists explain it?
The skeleton of an adult dinosaur named Barry, a large specimen of Camptosaurus from the end of the Jurassic period, roughly 150 million years ago, is on display at Drouot auction house in Paris.
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Rare dinosaur skeleton, known as ‘Barry,’ goes on sale in Paris auction
Scientists set out to study how living in captivity affected the body clock of giant pandas.
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Giant pandas living in zoos could be suffering from ‘jet lag,’ study says
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SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites into orbit
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Strange ‘earthquake lights’ explained
The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft carrying the crew formed of NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
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NASA astronaut, 2 Russian cosmonauts launch to space station
AS17-152-23272 (7-19 Dec. 1972) --- The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program. While astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, commander, and Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" to explore the Taurus-Littrow region of the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "America" in lunar orbit.
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Abandoned Apollo 17 lunar lander module is causing tremors on the moon
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Stunning shot of giant plasma arc scoops Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023
SpaceX posted images and video of Starship on the launch pad on Tuesday, September 5.
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FAA says it may grant a launch license for SpaceX’s Starship by the end of October
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks during a NASA briefing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, on September 14, 2023. NASA held its first public meeting on UAPs in May, calling for a more rigorous scientific approach to clarify the origin of hundreds of mysterious sightings. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Independent group of experts and scientists releases 33-page report on UFOs
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Antonio Lira
Strange lights spotted in Morocco earthquake videos may be a phenomenon reported for centuries, scientists say
Artist's impression of life on a planet in orbit around a binary star system, visible as two suns in the sky. Credit: Mark Garlick
Mark Garlick
For possible life on other planets, the more suns the better
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Planet in ‘habitable’ zone could have rare oceans and a possible sign of life, Webb data reveals