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Japan's Hayabusa2 Leaves Asteroid Ryugu and Heads Home

Japan’s Hayabusa2 Leaves Asteroid Ryugu and Heads Home

After spending over a year with the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, Japan’s Hayabusa-2 probe is getting ready to end its mission. The probe is expected...
Astronauts "open heart surgery" to repair costly cosmic ray detector

Astronauts “open heart surgery” to repair costly cosmic ray detector

Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station Friday for the first of four spacewalks to repair a $2 billion cosmic ray detector, breezing...
Researchers Find Fossilized Feathers of Cretaceous Polar Dinosaurs and Birds

Researchers Find Fossilized Feathers of Cretaceous Polar Dinosaurs and Birds

Researchers have discovered the fossilized feathers of dinosaurs and birds that lived 118 million years ago (Early Cretaceous epoch) in polar environment (around 70°S)...
Researchers Investigate Ancient Life in Australia

Researchers Investigate Ancient Life in Australia

As any geologist worth his or her salt will tell you, there are rocks, and then there are rocks. Next July, NASA and the...
NASA: Two Of Neptune Moons Are Locked In A Dance of Avoidance

NASA: Two Of Neptune Moons Are Locked In A Dance of Avoidance

A new research by the US space agency NASA has revealed how moons orbiting the solar system’s outermost planet avoid colliding, even though their...
Report: Exceptional meteor shower November 21-22

Report: Exceptional meteor shower November 21-22

Peter Jenniskens, SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center, and Esko Lyytinen, Helsinki, Finland, report that there will be a significant return of the...
Report: Nasa overpaid Boeing by hundreds of millions of dollars

Report: Nasa overpaid Boeing by hundreds of millions of dollars

NASA's inspector general released a report on the space agency's commercial crew program, which seeks to pay Boeing and SpaceX to develop vehicles to...
Study: Genes from bacteria helped plants conquer the land

Study: Genes from bacteria helped plants conquer the land

A gelatinous blob on top of a wet stone has led to the discovery that bacteria likely helped plants conquer land. A new study by...

Research: Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan —

By using ancient protein sequencing, researchers have retrieved genetic information from a 1.9 million year old extinct, giant primate that used to live...

Research: Experts unlock key to photosynthesis, a find that could help us meet food...

Scientists have solved the structure of one of the key components of photosynthesis, a discovery that could lead to photosynthesis being 'redesigned' to...

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