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  • Astronaut Suni Williams talks to reporters during a press conference at Johnson Space Center on Monday, March 31, 2025, in Houston.
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    NASA astronaut Suni Williams retires months after return from troubled mission to orbit
  • The space shuttle Challenger lifted off from Pad 39B Jan. 28, 1986 with a crew of seven astronauts and the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. An accident 73 seconds after liftoff claimed both crew and vehicle.
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    She was supposed to be the first teacher in space. 40 years later, her mission continues
  • A full Moon is in view from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022. The Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher, are being prepared for a wet dress rehearsal to practice timelines and procedures for launch. The first in an increasingly complex series of missions, Artemis I will test SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and using the Moon as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.
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    NASA could be weeks away from its biggest test in decades
  • BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12: The full moon rises over Simatai Great Wall on night of the Lantern Festival on February 12, 2025 in Beijing, China. The 15th day of the first month on the Chinese lunar calendar marks the Lantern Festival, which falls on February 12 this year. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
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    See February’s full snow moon light up the sky
  • Artemis II lunar mission astronauts pause outside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building during their Countdown Demonstration Test at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on December 20, 2025. (L-R) Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch, NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover and NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman. Designed to test launch-day procedures, the test is a dress rehearsal of what will happen on launch day, which is currently targeted for no earlier than February 1, 2026. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP via Getty Images)
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    4 astronauts will soon take an unprecedented path to the moon. But why aren’t they landing?
  • From left: Artemis II NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot, and Christina Koch, mission specialist, and Canadian Space Agency Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist, speak to members of the media during NASA’s Artemis II SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft rollout to Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 17, 2026.
    Kim Shiflett/NASA
    NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly
  • A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.
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    Scientists discover molecule in space that hints at origin of life
  • A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launches from Launch Site One in West Texas north of Van Horn on March 31, 2022. The NS-20 mission carries Blue Origin's New Shepard Chief Architect Gary Lai, Marty Allen, Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Jim Kitchen, and Dr. George Nield into space. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Blue Origin pauses trips on rocket that carried Jeff Bezos, Katy Perry and William Shatner to space
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  • A sculpture of a man's head inside the beak of an owl is thought to represent the individual buried inside the tomb.
    Luis Gerardo Peña Torres INAH
    Astonishing 1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico
  • V. Ramanathan in Maldives with AUAVs used in the Maldives AUAV Campaign to measure the atmospheric brown cloud over south Asia in February and March 2006.
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    The accidental climate scientist who uncovered an unexpected force of global warming

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    Jane Austen’s cause of death has remained a mystery. But her letters and books offer clues
  • Pilot Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in and airplane in circa 1936. (Photo courtesty Library of Congress/Getty Images)
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    An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?
  • O’Neill Cylinder interior provides a 20-mile vista. Children born here would think it totally normal to have “upside down” land areas overhead.
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    Two billionaires have very different — and equally wild — visions of a future in space. Is either possible?
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    An ancient stone staircase seemed to lead nowhere. Now it’s revealing the ‘lost Pompeii’
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  • TOPSHOT - A computer-generated artists impression released by the European Space Agency (ESA) depicts an approximation of 12 000 objects in orbit around the Earth. A communications satellite belonging to US company Iridium has collided with a disused Russian military satellite, on February 10, 2009. "A collision has occurred between an Iridium 33 satellite and a Russian Kosmos 2251 military satellite," Russian officials have said. Space News have reported that NASA is tracking hundreds of particles of debris from the collision, and said the orbiting International Space Station faced a small risk of being struck. AFP PHOTO / ESA / HO  
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    Scientists find unlikely new way to track space junk: sonic booms in the atmosphere
  • ‘Night-time solar energy’ could one day power satellites
  • Supergiant star Betelgeuse is full of mysteries. New observations might solve the biggest one
  • Sun releases the largest solar radiation storm ‘in over 20 years,’ forecasters say

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  • 67,800 yr old hand stencil
    Maxime Aubert/Griffith University
    Discovered: An outline of a hand that’s at least 67,800 years old
  • Genetic clues may be hiding in Leonardo da Vinci’s artwork
  • These ancient designs may be the first evidence of humans doing math
  • Oldest known poison arrows were used to hunt animals 60,000 years ago

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  • The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists members, from left, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Asha M. George and Steve Fetter, reveal the Doomsday Clock, set to 85 seconds to midnight, during a news conference at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
    Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
    Doomsday Clock 2026: Scientists set new time
  • Video shows cow using a brush to scratch its back in first described case of tool use in cattle
  • Horses really can smell our fear, new study finds
  • Birds at a college changed beak shapes during the pandemic. It might be a case of rapid evolution

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  • Tyrannosaurus rex is known as the king of the dinosaurs.
    Roger Harris/Science Photo Library RF/Getty Images
    Fossil analysis changes what paleontologists know about how long T. rex took to grow full size
  • Discovery of ancient bee nests in fossils points to a never-before-seen behavior
  • Scientists document over 16,000 footprints in the world’s most extensive dinosaur tracksite
  • Ancient eggshells shed new light on crocodiles that hunted prey from trees
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