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NASA's stuck astronauts hit 6 months in space. Just 2 more to go
NASA's two stuck astronauts have hit the six-month mark in space More »
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NASA pushes back astronaut flights to the moon again
NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo More »
European satellites launched to create artificial solar eclipses in a tech demo
A pair of European satellites has rocketed into orbit on a mission to create artificial solar eclipses More »
Billionaire who performed the first private spacewalk is Trump's pick to lead NASA
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a tech billionaire who performed the first private spacewalk to lead NASA More »
Muddy footprints suggest 2 species of early humans were neighbors in Kenya 1.5 million years ago
Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago More »
Apex the $45M stegosaurus is on display in New York. Here's what scientists hope to learn about it
The most expensive dinosaur fossil ever discovered will be on view in New York starting this weekend More »
Quake prompts brief tsunami warning on the West Coast. Here's what to know about tsunamis
The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a stretch of the West Coast — from Northern California to Oregon — before being canceled More »
Sierra Leone begins nationwide rollout of Ebola vaccine a decade after deadly outbreak
Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine More »
Fossilized dinosaur feces and vomit help scientists reconstruct the creatures' rise
Scientists are using used fossilized feces and vomit from Poland to reconstruct how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth More »
This whale species is so rare it's never been seen alive. A dissection may decode its mysteries
Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's rarest whale species More »
