May 17
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SpaceX has demonstrated its ability to land Starship, but the company still needs to send the prototype rocket into…
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George is a senior staff reporter at Gizmodo.
May 14
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Later today, China will attempt to become just the second country to successfully deploy a probe on Mars. Here’s…
May 14
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I once dreamt that I lived inside the belly of a Tyrannosaurus rex. Another dream about a haunted refrigerator that…
May 12
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Separated from the European Union, the UK is implementing a series of new measures to improve the welfare of…
May 12
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For the first time ever, neuroscientists have translated the cognitive signals associated with handwriting into…
May 10
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Archaeologists working at a cave site near Rome have found the mineralized remains of nine Neanderthals, in what’s…
May 10
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Voyager 1—the most distant human-made object—has made yet another remarkable discovery having to do with…
May 7
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An out-of-control Chinese rocket is scheduled to reenter Earth’s atmosphere this weekend, but no one is sure exactly…
May 7
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Angkor, in what is now Cambodia, was one of the most populated cities in the world from the 9th to 15th centuries CE.…
May 6
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A genetic and genealogical analysis has allowed a team of archaeologists to identify the skeletal remains of a…
May 6
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A glistening image of China’s wayward Long March 5B rocket, which is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry into…
May 5
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After years of delays, Blue Origin says it’s finally ready for a crewed launch of its New Shepard suborbital…
May 5
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On Wednesday afternoon, SpaceX will attempt a high altitude test of SN15—the first of the next generation of…
May 5
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A group of archaeologists has found the oldest deliberate burial of a modern human ever discovered in Africa, dating…
May 4
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During its third flyby of Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe recorded natural radio emissions from within the Venusian…
May 3
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Astrobiologists with the Breakthrough Listen project have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey, in…
May 3
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A radiological examination of a 2,000-year-old mummy presumed to be a male priest shows it’s actually the preserved…
Apr 30
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An international exercise to simulate an asteroid striking Earth has come to an end. With just six days to go before…
Apr 30
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Following yesterday’s launch, the core stage of China’s Long March 5B rocket inadvertently went into low Earth…
Apr 28
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A fictitious asteroid is headed our way, and a group of real experts is currently doing their best to deal with the…