Politics
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NASA Spent $450 Million on a Moon Rover. Now It’s Canceling the Mission.
Delays and concerns about NASA’s future budgets doomed the VIPER mission, which aimed to search for ice near the moon’s…
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At Paint Rock, Centuries of Native American Artistry
Paint Rock, an ancient ceremonial site in Central Texas, is a sort of outdoor gallery of rock art that documents…
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SpaceX Rocket Fails in Orbit
The malfunction, the first since 2016, ended a streak of more than 300 successful launches for the Falcon 9 rocket.
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Watch These Supernovas in (Time-Lapse) Motion
For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old stellar explosions.
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NASA Mission to Europa Imperiled by Chips Aboard Spacecraft
Transistors on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, scheduled to launch in October, may not be able to endure the harsh radiation…
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Early Humans Left Africa Much Earlier Than Previously Thought
Scientists have found evidence of several waves of migration by looking at the genetic signatures of human interbreeding with Neanderthals.
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A Mammoth First: 52,000-Year-Old DNA, in 3-D
In 2018 an international team of scientists — from labs in Houston, Copenhagen, Barcelona and beyond — got their hands…
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NASA Says No Plan to Use SpaceX to Rescue Boeing Starliner Astronauts
In a news conference from aboard the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said they had confidence in…
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To Protect Redwoods, They Lit a Fire
Beneath a cerulean sky and a forest of the largest trees on Earth, the chairman of the Tübatulabal Tribe, Robert…
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Melodies of Popular Songs Have Gotten Simpler Over Time
“Well, we’re all in the mood for a melody,” Billy Joel crooned in “Piano Man,” his iconic 1973 barroom ballad.…