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Two galaxies seen in a 'joust' preceding a cosmic mega-merger
Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward each other before their inevitable merger at a time when ...
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Britons become first to scale Mount Everest with the help of Xenon gas, organiser says
Four British climbers became the first to scale Mount Everest on Wednesday using Xenon gas, which helped them save several weeks that mountaineers need to get used to high altitude...
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Study casts doubt on water flows as cause of streaks on Martian slopes
Images taken of Mars from orbit dating back as far as the 1970s have captured curious dark streaks running down the sides of cliffs and crater walls that some scientists have const...
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China sets launch of asteroid probe Tianwen-2 for late May, state media reports
China is preparing to launch near-Earth asteroid probe Tianwen-2 at the end of May, state-run CCTV reported on Sunday, in the country's first mission to collect samples from interp...
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China's LandSpace launches improved methane-powered rocket
A new methane-powered rocket developed by China's LandSpace Technology launched six satellites into orbit on Saturday, as the private startup doubles down on a cheap, cleaner fuel ...
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NASA rover observes aurora on Mars in visible light for first time
NASA's Perseverance rover has observed an aurora on Mars in visible light for the first time, with the sky glowing softly in green in the first viewing of an aurora from any planet...
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Chicago museum's fossil yields insights on famed early bird Archaeopteryx
A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is revealing an array of previously unknown features of the earliest-known bi...
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Exclusive: Axelspace eyes June IPO, sources say, latest Japan space startup to seek a listing
Tokyo-based satellite maker Axelspace plans to list its shares as early as June, two sources said, the latest in a steady stream of domestic space startups tapping the Japanese cap...
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DNA links modern Picuris Pueblo tribe to ancient New Mexico site
DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a millennium ago is helping to link present-day members of a Pueblo tribe to this h...
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Hawaii's 'bone collector' caterpillar wears the body parts of dead prey
In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species that makes a living in ...
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Elite 5,000 year-old woman's tomb unearthed in coastal Peru
Archaeologists in coastal Peru have discovered the 5,000-year-old remains of a woman who may have belonged to the upper echelons of the ancient Caral civilization, a find they say ...
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Bite marks reveal gladiator's fatal encounter with a lion in ancient Britain
In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial spectacles were not merely human-versus-human affairs. Gladi...
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Planet with comet-like tail observed disintegrating near its star
Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail...
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Spacecraft brings Russians, American back to earth, Russia's space agency says
A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reporte...
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Luke Skywalker's planet orbited two stars. How about brown dwarfs instead?
In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then...
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NASA rover finds fresh evidence of the warm and wet past of Mars
A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it...
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Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet
In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, de...
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Bahamas suspends SpaceX rocket landings pending post-launch probe
The Bahamas' government said on Tuesday it is suspending all SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landings in the country, pending a full post-launch investigation.
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