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Blue Origin launches New Shepard rocket after failed 2022 flight test

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Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars, will temporarily disappear due to an asteroid

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Megalosaurus, the first ever dinosaur discovery

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Giant ape’s extinction solved by new fossil analysis

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SpaceX to launch first Turkish astronaut aboard private European space mission

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Hubble finds water vapor in small exoplanet’s atmosphere

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‘Moths to a flame’: Insect behavior around light isn’t about attraction, scientists say

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Water molecules found on asteroids thought to be ‘completely dry’

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Experimental technology enabled historic Odysseus moon landing

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Are we in the Anthropocene Epoch? Not so fast, geologists say

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