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Science • Apr 27

How giants that vanished 10,000 years ago triggered ripple effects that are still felt today

Between 50000 and 10000 years ago, many of the world's largest mammals disappeared. Picture creatures like saber-toothed cats with 7-inch fangs and...

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Science • Apr 27

Watch comet PANSTARRS 'switch on' its second tail as it makes closest approach to Earth

Comet PanSTARRS' ion tail became visible in satellite footage as it made its close approach to Earth on April 26.

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Science • Apr 27

SpaceX Falcon Heavy scrubs, but Atlas V may be visible along East Coast

It's launch day! What time is Cape Canaveral rocket launch? ULA Atlas V may be seen beyond Florida up to New England. Did your city make visibility map?

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Science • Apr 27

Florida rocket launch schedule this week kicks off with SpaceX, ULA

Florida's rocket launch schedule for the week of April 27 kicks off with back-to-back SpaceX and ULA launches on Monday. Here are liftoff times.

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Science • Apr 27

SpaceX launches its 50th mission of the year, sends 25 Starlink satellites to orbit (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 25 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California on Sunday (April 26). It was the company's 50th liftoff of the...

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Science • Apr 27

NASA Completes The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, Ahead Of Schedule And Under-Budget

NASA is on a roll getting spaceborne telescopes out into the universe. Just four years after the James Webb Space Telescope was deployed, the space agency's...

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Science • Apr 27

Video Shows NASA Astronaut Struggling to Walk After Journey Around the Moon

Spending prolonged periods of time in the microgravity of space can wreak havoc on our bodies. Scientists have found that astronauts can suffer from...

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Science • Apr 27

Video Shows NASA Astronaut Struggling to Walk After Journey Around the Moon

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who traveled around the Moon and back, demonstrates that getting used to Earth's gravity isn't exactly easy.

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Science • Apr 27

Two suns are better than one—planets thrive around binary stars

Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research from astrophysicists at the...

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Science • Apr 27

Invasive plant helps mosquitoes grow faster and live longer

A study shows how an invasive plant can increase mosquito populations. Its decaying leaves help microbes grow, which feed mosquito larvae.

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Science • Apr 27

Voyager 1 shuts off instrument to buy time before ‘Big Bang’ fix to extend the mission

Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, has powered down another science instrument as it explores uncharted interstellar space — a move that...

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Science • Apr 27

3I/ATLAS: Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb Reveals The Location Of Exocomet Amid UFO Disclosure Buzz

UFO disclosure has been all the buzz on social media, amid the death or disappearance of at least 12 scientists in the USA who were connected to advanced...

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Science • Apr 27

This Bone-Crunching Octopus Was Nearly the Size of a Semitruck and May Have Feasted on Giant Reptiles 100 Million Years Ago

The late Cretaceous marine food web may have had a terrifying kraken-like creature among its top ranks. A new analysis of ancient octopus jaws suggests that...

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Science • Apr 27

You Can Help Humans Thrive in Space

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put...

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Science • Apr 27

Astronomers Just Found A Colossal Structure Behind The Milky Way

A newly mapped supercluster hidden behind the Milky Way reveals one of the largest structures ever discovered in the universe.

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Science • Apr 27

Mining the solar system to build a new world

I watched Armageddon again fairly recently with Bruce Willis, oil drillers in space and an asteroid the size of Texas bearing down on Earth.

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Science • Apr 27

SpaceX scrubs Falcon Heavy launch of final ViaSat-3 satellite due to poor weather

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket on Monday, April 27, in the final minute due to poor weather in the area. Image: SpaceX via livestream.

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Science • Apr 27

Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet

Scientists keep detecting new forms of ice. According to simulations, there could be many more left to find.

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Science • Apr 27

This tiny mammal survived the dinosaur apocalypse and changed life on Earth

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, Cimolodon desosai,...

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Science • Apr 27

Volunteers Help NASA Astronauts Record Lunar Flashes

As NASA's Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface.

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