Science
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SpaceX Carries NASA Astronaut Mission Home With Safe Water Landing
Four astronauts inside a capsule built by SpaceX streaked across the Florida night sky like a meteor before splashing down…
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NASA Astronauts to Undock From Space Station: How to Watch
After an eventful stay aboard the International Space Station, four astronauts from the NASA Crew-2 mission are scheduled to head…
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Antarctica Was Once a Land of Fire and Not Ice
Imagine the forests of Chilean Patagonia: wet and cold, dense with monkey puzzle trees and other hardy conifers. Now imagine…
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Star System With Right-Angled Planets Surprises Astronomers
Star systems come in all shapes and sizes. Some have lots of planets, some have larger planets and others have…
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How to Map a Fly Brain in 20 Million Easy Steps
The brain of a fruit fly is the size of a poppy seed and about as easy to overlook. “Most…
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Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Company Wants to Build a Space Station
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is teaming up with other firms to…
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Behold, the Worm Blob and Its Computerized Twin
In the wild, a worm blob looks like any other mud ball lolling around the bottom of a pond. But…
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To Learn Bees’ Secrets, Count Them One by One
All through late summer and early fall, Max McCarthy, a graduate student at Rutgers University, walked around wetlands in northern…
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Surprise Russian Thruster Firing Prompts Space Station Emergency
The International Space Station was briefly tilted out of its normal position in orbit on Friday during a test firing…
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In a Blue Origin Rocket, William Shatner Finally Goes to Space
NEAR VAN HORN, TEXAS — William Shatner, the actor best known as the heroic Captain James T. Kirk in “Star…