Here's how to get the best view of the Geminids meteor shower in central Indiana in 2024
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Geminid meteor shower peaks this week: Here's your skygazing forecast
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Viewing the 2024 Geminid Meteor Shower
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Geminid meteor shower fills the sky with 'shooting stars' in spectacular time-lapse photos
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A new pair of satellites are set to create ‘solar eclipses on demand’
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Two European satellites launch on mission to blot out the Sun—for science
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European satellites launched to create an artificial eclipse
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India’s Drive for Space Allies Gets Boost From European Launch
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Satellites Designed To Create Artificial Solar Eclipses Just Launched—Here’s When We’ll Be Able To See Images
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Full Coverage of this storyBepiColombo Reveals Mercury’s Hidden Surface in Stunning Infrared Detail
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BepiColombo reveals Mercury in a new light
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Mercury observed in thermal infrared for the first time
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Hidden Details of Mercury’s Surface Revealed in Groundbreaking Infrared Imaging
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What Is The Universe Expanding Into If It’s Already Infinite?
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Enigmatic ‘Dark Comets’ Come in Two Distinct Types, Study Finds
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'Dark Comets' Come in Different Varieties, And It Could Have Implications For Life on Earth
A New Type Of Dark Comet May Have Shaped The Early Earth
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Astronomers keep finding more and more "weird" objects, and they could unlock the secret to life on Earth
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NASA Uncovers Expanding Population of Dark Comets—What Could These Mysterious Objects Mean for Earth?
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Blue Origin's New Glenn will launch any day now – but it better hurry up
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In a not-so-subtle signal to regulators, Blue Origin says New Glenn is ready
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Blue Ring Pathfinder Payload Ready for Launch; Blue Origin’s New Glenn on Track for This Year
Blue Origin pushing to launch New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral by end of the year
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Blue Origin: New Glenn On Track To Launch This Month
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Full Coverage of this storyCreepy crustacean: Meet the deep sea predator named 'darkness'
Researchers discover new ocean predator in the Atacama Trench
DNA confirms new 'large predator' living in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth
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New predator uncovered 25,000+ feet under the Pacific
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First-Of-Its-Kind Predator Caught 8,000 Meters Deep In The Atacama Trench
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Full Coverage of this storyGroundbreaking Discovery of the Deepest Blue Hole Reveals Hidden Caves and Tunnels Beneath the Ocean
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Carbon dioxide rivers? Ancient Mars' liquid may not all have been water
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‘Black Beauty’ was found on Earth in 2011. Now, scientists say it has revealed a new clue to life on Mars
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4.45-billion-year-old crystal reveals Mars' earliest connection with water
Other Liquids Could Be Forming Minerals on Mars
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Purdue professor finds evidence of liquid water formation on Mars in Lafayette Meteorite
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Full Coverage of this storyUniverse expanding faster than scientists predicted, Web telescope shows
Webb telescope's largest study of universe expansion confirms challenge to cosmic theory
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'Our understanding of the universe may be incomplete': James Webb Space Telescope data suggests we need a 'new cosmic feature' to explain it all
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Space anomaly hints at new physics
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James Webb telescope confirms we have no idea why the universe is growing the way it is
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Warm and Sunny Weather on Mars Could Mean Disaster for Future Missions
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Full Coverage of this storyScientists Share Early Results from NASA’s Solar Eclipse Experiments
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SpaceX rocket launch tops the Christmas tree at Vandenberg Space Force Base (photo)
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Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone satellites is now in orbit
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SpaceX rocket launch: When is liftoff, where to watch from Daytona, New Smyrna, Oak Hill
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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
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Friday the 13th SpaceX rocket launch: List of Florida beaches, parks, best views to watch
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Full Coverage of this storyNASA’s Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets
Hubble celebrates a decade of tracking the outer planets
Feast your eyes on 10 years of Hubble images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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Pasadena’s Hubble Telescope Celebrates a Decade of Tracking the Outer Planets
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World shaking discovery by NASA; here's what the space agency has disclosed about the red planet Mars
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Scientists discover more mitochondria-like symbionts with surprising metabolic capacities
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Full Coverage of this storyJames Webb Space Telescope finds smallest asteroids ever seen between Mars and Jupiter
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Full Coverage of this storyHubble Telescope sees 'weird things' in closest-ever look at a quasar from monster black hole
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Full Coverage of this storyAlena Tensor—a new hope for unification in physics
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Discovery of Ancient Sea Creature That Hasn’t Changed Since the Dinosaurs!
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Deep-sea vessel discovers primitive creature "barely changed since the age of the dinosaurs” after 15-year quest
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Scientists film footage of extremely ancient deep sea creatures
After 15 years, a vessel named ‘Nautilus’ actually saw a nautilus
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Ocean Scientists Erupt With Joy Over Nautilus In The Deep
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Full Coverage of this storyThe moon's oldest crater is super round - and that's great news for NASA's Artemis astronauts
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The Biggest Crater on The Moon Is Much Bigger Than We Ever Realized
The Moon has a Canada-sized crater, and researchers are thrilled by their discovery
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Snap! -- Round Crater, Solar Paint, Rice Hull Batteries
The moon's biggest and most ancient crater is more circular than previously thought
Full Coverage of this storyNASA Invites Social Creators for Launch of Two NASA Missions
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Flying Drones That Can Walk And Jump Into The Air: An Idea With Legs?
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Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air
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Fast ground-to-air transition with avian-inspired multifunctional legs
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Watch This Drone Walk, Hop And Take Flight, Thanks To Its Two Legs
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Roboticists develop a bird-like robot that can jump into the air to launch itself into flight
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New look at dopamine signaling suggests neuroscientists' model of reinforcement learning may need to be revised
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Shattered Genesis spacecraft yields scientific discoveries 20 years after crash landing
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Judging knot strength throws people for a loop: Experiment reveals new blind spot in our physical reasoning
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Was This Half-Billion-Year-Old Wrinkled Sack With No Anus, Previously Believed To Be Our Earliest Ancestor, Actually A Baby Penis Worm?
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NASA tests high-tech software for future mission to search for life on Jupiter's moon Europa
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Minus 257°C and no signal: NASA’s robots to land where no human has ever gone
Towards Autonomous Surface Missions on Ocean Worlds
It's a bird… It’s a plane… No, it’s an underwater robot designed by NASA for space exploration
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NASA to hunt for alien life on 'ocean moons' with fleet of AI-powered robots
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Full Coverage of this storyClimate change ‘greatly overestimated’? Oceans cooling Earth far more than we thought
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An underestimated element: this is what Climate Cooling can produce
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New Sulfur Gas Discovered in Oceans Enhances Climate Cooling
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Oceans cool the climate with sulfur emissions greater than expected
Spanish scientists discover that the ocean cools the climate more than previously believed
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Antimatter idea offers scientists clue to cracking cosmic mystery
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Full Coverage of this storyRethinking the quantum chip: Engineers present new design for superconducting quantum processor
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Full Coverage of this storyCosmic rays may complicate the quest to find life on Mars
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Astronomers explore globular cluster system of ultra-diffuse galaxy VCC 615
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Sengis are adorable, impossibly-snouted mini anteaters on stilts!
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Holding out hope for a cold-case miracle: Detectives, kin try to learn missing daughter’s fate
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Ocean world Ceres, near Mars, is full of organic matter that may support life
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Hidden Organic Reservoirs Found on Ceres, Igniting Hopes for Alien Life
Dwarf planet Ceres could be rich in organics, defunct spacecraft data reveals
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Recent Replenishment Of Aliphatic Organics On Ceres From A Large Subsurface Reservoir
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Second Most Water-Rich World In The Inner Solar System Has More Organic Material Than Thought
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Full Coverage of this storyThis Microbe Eats Radiation For Breakfast. Now We Know Its Secret.
How ‘Conan the Bacterium’ withstands extreme radiation
Study finds microbes that feed on radiation waves for breakfast
Bacterium that Resists Radiation Studied. May Protect Astronauts
This Tiny Microbe Can Withstand Extreme Radiation That Would Obliterate Humans. Here's How It Might Protect Astronauts on a Trip to Mars
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Full Coverage of this storyHas the Universe Been Designed to Support Life? Now We Have a Way to Test it!
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Physicists Propose How To Test If The Universe Is Finely Tuned For Life
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Physicists Say They Can Test Whether Life’s Existence Is Coincidental
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'We live in a universe that is just right for us': Study proposes a test for the Anthropic Principle
Is the Universe Designed for Us? Scientists Devise Way to Test the “Anthropic Principle”
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Full Coverage of this storyInfamous 'sofa problem' that boggled mathematicians for decades may finally have a solution
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Discovery! Newfound exoplanet is 4th 'hot Neptune' ever found
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Engineering the Impossible: Scientists Solve 200-Year-Old Polymer Puzzle
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Black hole debate settled? Stellar-mass black holes found at heart of Milky Way's largest star cluster
Full Coverage of this storyLaunch Roundup: Kairos set for second launch attempt, Falcon 9 to launch 03b and GPS missions
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Full Coverage of this storyNew Study: This Plant-Based Beverage Could Be the Key to Treating Trauma-Related Disorders
Full Coverage of this storyRewriting Biology Textbooks: Johns Hopkins Scientists Debunk Century-Old Assumption About Brain Cells
Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function
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Neurons Don't Look Like We've Long Thought, Controversial Study Says
Controversial study redraws classical picture of the neuron
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Reimagining axons with the pearls-on-a-string model
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These Bizarre Antarctic Animals Can Live For 11,000 Years
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