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NASA announces end of long-operating Mars probe's mission
NASA announced on Tuesday the end of the mission of its MAVEN spacecraft, which spent more than 11 years orbiting Mars to study the atmosphere of Earth's planetary neighbor, after...
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Indonesian parrot, seen once in a century, reappears in mountain forest
For the past century, the Blue-fronted Lorikeet was one of Indonesia's most elusive birds, known only from a 2014 photographic record and a handful of museum specimens, with a lin...
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Scientists reveal Ötzi the Iceman's dynamic microbial world
Ötzi the Iceman died violently roughly 5,300 years ago in the Alpine region of the modern border between Italy and Austria. An arrowhead was found lodged in his left shoulder, havi...
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket to return to flight before year ends, CEO says
Blue Origin will return its New Glenn rocket to flight before the year ends, CEO Dave Limp said late on Monday, days after one of the rockets exploded, damaging the company's lau...
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SpaceX negotiating underwriting fees under 0.75% for IPO, Bloomberg News reports
Elon Musk's SpaceX is negotiating with banks underwriting its initial public offering to pay fees of less than 0.75% on the roughly $75 billion it aims to raise this month, Bloom...
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Astronomers discover exoplanets with magnetic fields
Based on the behavior of winds on seven large and hot gas exoplanets, astronomers have obtained the strongest evidence to date that planets beyond our solar system possess magneti...
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Norway recovers porcelain, chandeliers from 18th century shipwreck
Archaeologists have recovered a trove of Chinese porcelain and European-made goods from a recently discovered 18th-century shipwreck off the coast of Norway, government and museu...
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SpaceX wins $4.16 billion US Space Force contract for threat-detection satellites
The satellite program is designed to track and target airborne threats.
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China's Shenzhou-21 astronaut crew returns to Earth
China's Shenzhou-21 crew of three astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after nearly seven months in space and were in good health, state media reported.
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Inca child mummy returned to indigenous community in Argentina
The mummy of a child from the Inca period, discovered frozen in 1905 on a mountain in northwestern Argentina, has been returned to an indigenous community after spending 119 years...
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Here's how Tyrannosaurus ended up with a big head and small arms
Tyrannosaurus rex possessed a preposterously massive skull - 5 feet long (1.5 meters) and built to enable bone-crunching bite force - but presented preposterously puny arms. And ma...
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Blue Origin rocket explodes on launchpad in a setback for bid to catch Musk's SpaceX
An uncrewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on a Florida launchpad during a test on Thursday, in a major setback for Jeff Bezos’ space venture as it seeks to narrow the gap...
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Fearsome dinosaur-era marine reptile was the T. rex of the sea
Tyrannosaurus rex was a huge land predator during the twilight of the age of dinosaurs. But it was not the only T. rex that terrorized the Cretaceous Period. There also was a mari...
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Ancient bird's long tail feathers were perfect for a mating dance
New Guinea's tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom's most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds of paradise prancing about and showing off their plum...
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FAA orders SpaceX to investigate Starship booster mishap
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered SpaceX to investigate why its Starship booster suffered a mishap and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico during a test flight last we...
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NASA picks Blue Origin, other space firms for moon missions
NASA awarded contracts to space firms including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Astrolab to send robotic landers, rovers and drones to support the upcoming lunar exploration missions...
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US Space Force awards SpaceX $2.29 billion contract for military space data network
The contract is to build a secure, high-speed satellite communications network to connect military sensors and weapons platforms across the globe.
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China to send astronaut on year-long space mission as it eyes 2030 moon landing
China will send an astronaut to its space station on Sunday for a year, a record length for the country, enabling the study of long-duration human physiology in space as Beijing w...
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