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A piece of space debris punched a tiny hole in the International Space Station, damaging a robotic arm
Scientists monitor more than 23,000 pieces of space junk that could threaten satellites and the spa…
Aylin Woodward
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A bottle of red wine that aged for 14 months on the International Space Station is up for sale and could fetch up to $1 million
The bottle of Pétrus spent 14 months in orbit and comes with a terrestrially-aged bottle for the bu…
Annabelle Williams
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A small asteroid that hit Botswana took 23 million years to get here from the asteroid belt, astronomers found
In 2018, an asteroid struck Botswana. Astronomers traced its origins to an ancient space rock in th…
Aylin Woodward
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Indian-origin scientist spots genes that fight Covid infection
A team of US scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher, has identified a set of human genes th…
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NASA's Mars rover landed in the perfect place to hunt for alien fossils: an ancient lake bed called Jezero Crater
Perseverance will scour mud and clay in Jezero's river delta and shorelines for signs of microbe co…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is rushing to hold onto its first sample of asteroid dust before too much leaks into space: 'Time is of the essence'
A valve on the probe's sample-collecting arm won't close, and bits of asteroid are floating away. T…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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Unprecedented new video shows NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft landing on an asteroid and sucking up dust
In NASA's video, the probe creates a flurry of dust and rock — which is how it attempted to collect…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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ISRO's MOM captures Mars' biggest moon that's on a collision course for the Red Planet
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has captured the Red Pla…
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The 10 biggest asteroids that pose a threat to Earth in 2020
There are swarms of millions of asteroids in the Solar System. Most of them keep to themselves as t…
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The moon has been drifting away from Earth for 4.5 billion years. A stunning animation shows how far it has gone.
Today, the moon is pulling away from Earth at about 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year. Scientis…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA photos reveal SpaceX is scouting these 9 places on Mars to land its first Starship rocket missions
By using solar (or perhaps nuclear) energy, Musk says a process called the Sabatier reaction could …
Dave Mosher
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NASA's new Mars mission just landed - and it could reveal why Earth is habitable but the red planet is not
"Earth ... is a big planet that holds a lot of heat, a lot of energy, and it's been very geological…
Dave Mosher
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Chinese scientists created a robot that can make oxygen on Mars. It could allow humans to someday live on the red planet.
The robot was able to come up with the experiment and carry it out "without human intervention." It…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA is investigating where a chunk of metal that smashed into a Florida house came from
Most space debris burns up as it enters Earth's atmosphere, but a homeowner in Naples, Florida, wit…
Polly Thompson
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This guy's description of the missing F-35 crashing in South Carolina is perfection
A man who heard the missing F-35 stealth fighter scream past his house and crash thought it was a "…
Paul Squire
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Harvard astrophysicist says he may have found alien tech from a meteor that crashed in the Pacific in 2014
Avi Loeb and his team found 10 tiny spheres that could be part of "a spacecraft from another civili…
George Glover
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5 of the wildest experiments tardigrades have survived in the name of science
The extremely hardy (and cute) tardigrades thrive in harsh environments ill-suited for most life, i…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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My final, unexpected conversation with Cormac McCarthy
It'd been years since we'd spoken. Then, not long before he died, the acclaimed and elusive author …
David Kushner
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10 Things in Politics: Inside Buttigieg's emails to staffers
And the CDC urges all adults to get boosters amid Omicron concerns.
Brent D. Griffiths
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10 Things in Politics: Kamala Harris' Big Tech problem
And Major League Baseball secretly used 2 different types of baseballs last season.