Science
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NASA May Let Billionaire Astronaut and SpaceX Lift Hubble Telescope
If you’ve got a telescope in danger of falling out of orbit, who are you going to call? The United…
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What NASA’s Crash Into an Asteroid Looks Like
NASA’s DART spacecraft was not able to take pictures of the very moment it slammed into an asteroid on Monday…
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NASA Smashes Into an Asteroid, Completing a Mission to Save a Future Day
LAUREL, Md. — It’s the plot point for more than one Hollywood blockbuster: A rogue asteroid is hurtling toward Earth,…
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NASA Is About to Crash Into an Asteroid. Here’s How to Watch.
An asteroid minding its own business not too far from Earth is about to get knocked about by a visitor…
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Neptune and Its Rings Come Into Focus With Webb Telescope
No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew past on its way out of…
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New System Aims to Save Whales Near San Francisco From Ship Collisions
THE PACIFIC OCEAN NEAR SAN FRANCISCO — Fran washed ashore in August, some 25 miles south of the Golden Gate…
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Life on Mars? This Could Be the Place NASA’s Rover Helps Us Find It.
Exploring an ancient river delta in a crater on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected samples of two rocks that…
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Bird Flu Found in Dolphin in Florida and Porpoise in Sweden
A bottlenose dolphin found dead in a Florida canal this past spring tested positive for a highly virulent strain of…
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Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch
Our bodies are home to hundreds or thousands of species of microbes — nobody is sure quite how many. That’s…
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This Jellyfish Can Live Forever. Its Genes May Tell Us How.
Fleets of tiny translucent umbrellas, each about the size of a lentil, waft through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.…