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NASA says helium leak poses no safety threat to Boeing's Starliner capsule
Engineers are confident the leak will not worsen in flight, and even if it does, the Starliner can safely launch June 1.
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A potentially habitable Earth-size planet was discovered just 40 light-years away
A potentially habitable exoplanet that is roughly similar in size to Earth has been found in a system located 40 light-years away, according to a new study.
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Cats on the moon? Google's AI tool is producing misleading responses that have experts worried
Ask Google if cats have been on the moon and it used to spit out a ranked list of websites so you could discover the answer for yourself. “Yes, astronauts have met cats on the moon, played with them, and provided care," said Google's newly retooled search engine in response to a query by an Associated Press reporter. Similar errors — some funny, others harmful falsehoods — have been shared on social media since Google this month unleashed AI overviews, a makeover of its search page that freque
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A trial of cloud-brightening technology sparks controversy in a California city
Alameda, California, has been thrust into a debate about geoengineering, after scientists began to study technology that could be used to brighten clouds to fight climate change.
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Crows can count up to four, a new study finds
Crows can vocally count up to four. The intelligent birds recognize and react to numbers in a process similar to that of human cognition, according to a new study.
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A rare 6-planet alignment will occur soon. Here's what to know.
The orbits of six planets will bring them to the same side of the sun to create a "planetary parade" in early June.
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Scientists have discovered a theoretically habitable, Earth-size planet
Two teams of scientists have discovered a theoretically habitable planet called Gliese 12b that’s smaller than Earth but bigger than Venus, just 40 light-years away.
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Rio de Janeiro bay reforestation shows mangroves' power to mitigate climate disasters
At the rear of Rio de Janeiro's polluted Guanabara Bay, thousands of mangroves rise as tall as 13 feet (about 4 meters) from a previously deforested area. The 30,000 trees, planted by non-profit organization Instituto Mar Urbano over four years in the Guapimirim environmental protection area, stand as an example for cities seeking natural means to improve climate resilience. Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul is still reeling from a devastating flood earlier this month that wreaked h
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Boeing's 1st astronaut flight now set for June after a review of small leak on new capsule
Boeing is now aiming for its first astronaut launch at the beginning of June, after spending the past few weeks struggling with more problems on the space capsule. Officials for the company and NASA said Friday that intensive reviews indicate the Starliner capsule can safely fly two test pilots to the International Space Station, despite a propulsion system leak. The small helium leak was discovered following the first launch attempt on May 6 that was scuttled by an unrelated rocket problem no
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Sweden's Arctic spaceport moves one step closer to orbital launches
Swedish Space Corporation and Perigee Aerospace to launch satellites from Esrange Space Center, Sweden in 2025, with the Blue Whale 1 microlauncher.
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Watch Rocket Lab launch a NASA climate change cubesat early on May 25
Rocket Lab will launch the first of two satellites for NASA's PREFIRE climate change mission early Saturday morning (May 25), and you can watch the action live.
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SpaceX targeting June 5 for 4th test flight of Starship megarocket
SpaceX aims to launch its huge Starship vehicle for the fourth time ever as early as June 5, provided the necessary regulatory approvals come through.
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Man finds ancient mammoth bones in his wine cellar
Andreas Pernerstorfer was renovating his wine cellar in Gobelsburg, Austria, when he made an astounding ancient discovery. It wasn't vintage wine — it was mammoth bones.
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Boeing Starliner 1st astronaut flight: Live updates
Boeing will launch its first-ever Starliner astronaut mission for NASA as early as this evening (May 6).
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Once celebrated, an inventor’s breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters — and the world is still recovering
Though the dangers of leaded gasoline and CFCs are now well-known, their inventor was once lauded as a hero. But he couldn’t escape the impact of his creations.
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May full moon 2024: See the Flower Moon blossom in gorgeous photos from around the world
Explore stunning photos of the May full moon captured by skywatchers from around the world.
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Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'
An unusual binary system could be evidence that some massive stars can die quietly, without a supernova explosion.
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Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millennia
Humans have watched and learned from animals who treat their ills with bioactive plants. This animal wisdom has a scientific name: zoopharmacognosy.
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How can we protect satellites in Earth-moon space? This new software could help
New algorithms are being developed to automatically monitor satellites and prevent collisions in cislunar space, the realm between Earth and the moon.
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What it’s really like to live in Antarctica
Few people can say they’ve lived on the White Continent, but those who do have incredible stories.
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Climate change and rapid urbanization worsened the impact of East African rains, scientists say
The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a mix of climate change and rapid growth of urban areas, an international team of climate scientists said in a study published Friday. The findings come from World Weather Attribution, a group of scientists that analyzes whether and to what extent human-induced climate change has altered the likelihood and magnitude of extreme weather events. The downpours caused floods that killed hundreds of peopl
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Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space
NASA's Psyche mission to a metallic asteroid is now under the power of solar-electric propulsion.
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We could float effortlessly in Pluto's subsurface ocean
A subsurface ocean of liquid water may exist beneath Pluto's nitrogen ice, according to an analysis of data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe.
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China launches test satellite to very low Earth orbit (video)
China launched four satellites on Tuesday (May 21) to test out new technologies. The spacecraft went up on the third-ever launch of the Kuaizhou-11 solid rocket.
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Beach weather is here and so are sharks. Scientists say it's time to look out for great whites
Scientists with a Boston aquarium are encouraging beachgoers to report sightings of white sharks this holiday weekend after signs of shark bites were observed on multiple marine mammals. Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer in New England, and the region has been experiencing beach weather already.
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A vintage find: Man discovers mammoth bones in wine cellar
A man in Austria discovered prehistoric mammoth bones while renovating his wine cellar.
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SpaceX Dragon joins Mercury and Apollo capsules on display in Chicago
A twice-flown SpaceX capsule has debuted at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, next to a Mercury spacecraft and an Apollo command module.
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Satellite data reveals Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is melting faster than we thought
The ICEYE satellite constellation has given researchers a peek beneath the glacier, and it's not looking good.
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SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on 3rd mission in 2 days (video)
SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida on Thursday night (May 23). It was the third mission in two days for the company.
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Massive cradle of baby stars revealed in new space telescope images
A massive cradle of baby stars has been observed in new detail by a European space telescope, adding to its celestial collection of images. The European Space Agency released the photos from the Euclid observatory on Thursday. From its perch 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth, Euclid will spend the next several years observing billions of galaxies covering more than one-third of the sky.
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NASA space telescope finds Earth-size exoplanet that's 'not a bad place' to hunt for life
NASA exoplanet-hunter TESS has found a temperate, Earth-size world in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star. This planet could make waves in the search for life.
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'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan! (video)
Supermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation in their galaxies are shifting targets like real-life Death Stars.
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Some birds may use ‘mental time travel,’ study finds
The ability to remember things that happened in the past is a hallmark of episodic memory. New research suggests it’s an ability humans may share with Eurasian jays.
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Space Force wants 7 new telescopes in Hawaii. Local residents say 'no'
Some Hawaii residents oppose plans from the U.S. Space Force to build a suite of new telescopes designed to track and prevent satellites in orbit from colliding.
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Hundreds of mammoth bones discovered in Austrian wine cellar
Hundreds of mammoth bones have been uncovered in an Austrian wine cellar, in a discovery labelled an “archaeological sensation.”
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Things are finally looking up for the Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft
Voyager 1's mission has been tumultuous lately, but scientists on the probe's flight team have turned optimistic about the situation.
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Here’s how machine learning can violate your privacy
A data privacy expert explains how machine learning algorithms draw inferences and how that leads to privacy concerns.
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See May's Full Flower Moon blossom in the night sky tonight
The Full Flower Moon will be in the Scorpius constellation tonight (May 23), rising in the southeast just after sunset.
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Euclid telescope captures dazzling new images of cosmos
Shining galaxies, a purple and orange star nursery and a spiral galaxy are among the new images.
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Hundreds of people suffer heatstroke in Pakistan, and dangerous heat is forecast to stay a while
Doctors treated hundreds of victims of heatstroke at hospitals across Pakistan on Thursday after an intense heat wave sent temperatures above normal levels due to climate change, officials said. The city, known for its archaeological sites, is in southern Sindh province, which was badly hit by climate-induced monsoon rains and devastating floods in 2022. The heat wave is forecast to continue for at least a week.
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The Euclid 'dark universe detective' telescope has revealed new images of the cosmos — and they are remarkable
A new set of images has been released from Europe's "dark universe detective" Euclid, and they show that the space telescope is set to change the game for astronomy.
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‘Seeds are life’: How a seed bank in the Mojave Desert is preserving an ancient ecosystem under threat
The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.
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Colombia launches expedition to explore 300-year-old Spanish shipwreck filled with sunken treasure
Colombia has launched the initial phase of an underwater expedition to explore a Spanish warship that sank in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago – believed to contain billions of dollars worth of artifacts and the rights to which are under heated dispute.
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Italian museum recreates Tanzanian butterfly forest to raise awareness on biodiversity research
In a lush greenhouse high in the Alps, butterflies of various species and colors flutter freely while butterfly pupae are suspended in a structure as they grow into adult insects. This is the Butterfly Forest in the tropical mountain greenhouse in Trento, Italy, a project by the Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), an Italian science museum. It's modeled on Udzungwa Mountains, a mountain range and rainforest area in south-central Tanzania that’s one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.
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Boeing's Starliner facing additional delay for extended leak analysis
NASA managers have ordered additional reviews of a small helium leak in Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to make sure it can be safely launched as is.
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Reports: Colorado S Shilo Sanders, Deion's son, facing NIL questions after filing for bankruptcy, $12 million assault lawsuit
A high school security guard won $12 million judgement after alleging Shilo Sanders broke his neck in 2015.
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Rich Paul says Bronny James will not sign two-way NBA contract: 'Teams know that. I'm not doing that'
James is expected to be a second-round pick in June's NBA Draft.
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Nvidia's stock split isn't something for investors to ignore: Morning Brief
Nvidia announced a stock split on Wednesday that, on the surface, appears to mean nothing. But upon further inspection, it offers some important signals about where management thinks the AI boom is headed.
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Indy 500 pace cars: Wouldn't you really rather have a Viper?
Before Rick Mears won his fourth Indianapolis 500 in 1991, he already had his eye one sweet prize: The winner gets a pace car. But he got a disappointing surprise instead. Here's a look at pace cars through the ages.
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Christie Brinkley, 70, uses these 'powerful' anti-aging products 'every day' — and they're 40% off right now
Save 40 per cent off sitewide during SBLA's Memorial Day sale (Canadians can shop too!)
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