SpaceX is the current leader in commercial spaceflight worldwide, but it's far from the only game in town. Blue Origin, founded by billionaire Amazon boss…
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Who says crime doesn't pay? For 36-year-old Matthew Dailey of Royal Oak, Michigan, crime most certainly did pay, and for quite a while. That ended…
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You don't need to look far to find some seriously troubling data regarding obesity in the United States and abroad. Waistlines are growing, and with…
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Nuclear weapons testing dates back to the mid 1940s and ramped up significantly starting in the early 1950s. Several countries, including the U.S., Soviet Union,…
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Like every other living creature on the planet, our bodies are slaves to the endless march of time. There's nothing we can to do stop…
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Earth orbits the Sun at a distance that allows both liquid water and water ice to exist on its surface in ample amounts. We like…
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People throw around the word "karma" a lot whenever something bad happens to someone, but it's hard to find a better example of real, actual…
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Robots and space exploration go hand-in-hand, so it's no surprise that NASA is on the forefront of experimental new robotics technologies that could be used…
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This is one of those rare stories that sounds like it could have come straight from a parody news site but I swear to you…
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Running into a wasp — or even worse, several wasps — on a nice summer day can be terrifying. Unlike honeybees, some wasp species are…
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We're surrounded by plastics for much of our lives. Plastics are cheap and easy to make, they're often incredibly durable, and they last just about…
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If Earth were ever to be threatened by a large space rock — and it definitely will at some point in the future — humanity…
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Mars is a dry and dusty place, and strong winds can kick up huge plumes of material that block out the Sun for days, weeks,…
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The world is a strange place when you're 13 years old. You're tackling a variety of school subjects while trying to navigate the choppy waters…
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We often take modern conveniences like keyless entry and automatic garage doors for granted, but residents of North Olmsted, Ohio, just experienced what it is…
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Mars as we know it today is a mostly dry, dusty place with a few pockets of ice in remote regions. It's barren and we're…
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Not many things went right for NASA and SpaceX last week. Their desire to send a routine resupply mission, CRS-17, to the International Space Station…
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Some of the world's top scientists and disaster response teams spent a big chunk of last week simulating what might happen if a large asteroid…
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It's been well over a week since news first broke of a serious malfunction with SpaceX's hotly anticipated Crew Dragon capsule. The spacecraft self-destructed during…
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People who live across the Midwestern U.S. know that tornadoes are just something you have to deal with. They can be utterly devastating, of course,…
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Resupply missions to the International Space Station are typically routine affairs, and SpaceX has completed well over a dozen such missions ahead of this week's…
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There are lots of rules out there when it comes to cooking meat, and, of all the common meats you might find yourself cooking, chicken…
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NASA's InSight lander has been sitting safely on Mars for a number of months now after landing back in late 2018, and it's already making…
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Despite their reputation for offering painful stings — a result of the general confusion between bees and wasps — bees are absolutely vital to our…
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Roughly a decade from now, a rather sizable space rock is going to have a very close encounter with Earth — on Friday the 13th,…
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Like many of the larger bodies in our solar system, Saturn's massive moon Titan has long been of interest to astronomers due to its unique…
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Back in January skywatchers were treated to a gorgeous lunar eclipse that was visible across multiple continents. It made headlines as the "Super Blood Wolf…
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