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Crew Dragon

SpaceX's Crew Dragon Successfully Docks With International Space Station

Another landmark event for NASA and SpaceX

Mono Lake

Report: Southwestern United States Experiencing "Megadrought"

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft attached sits on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on May 27, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Later today NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are scheduled to liftoff on an inaugural flight and will be the first people since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Set to Launch NASA Astronauts Into Space Today

Blue bee

Distinctive Blue Bees, Believed Extinct, Found Again in Florida

Judy Mikovits in "Plandemic"

How to Talk to Truthers, Deniers and Assorted Covidiots

A Virgin Orbit 747-400 aircraft named 'Cosmic Girl' on final approach to Long Beach (CA) Airport, home of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit company, July 31, 2017 in Long Beach, CA.(Photo by Bob Riha, Jr.,/Getty Images)

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Fails With First Rocket Launch Attempt

Bear illustration

Family Makes Rare Sighting of White Grizzly Bear in Canadian Rockies

SpaceX

Historic NASA and SpaceX Launch Approved for Wednesday

"I was doing spacewalks in zero gravity to repair the Hubble telescope."

What It's Like to Leave Planet Earth and Go for a Spacewalk

llama

Llamas Join Global Fight Against COVID-19

Viking ship

Norwegian Archaeologists Plan to Excavate Viking Ship

A man walks with a face mask on

New Study Could Explain Why Men Are More Vulnerable to COVID-19

Newfoundland

Canadian DNA Discovery Rewrites Newfoundland's History

UFO Site

Should We Take UFOs Seriously? This Scientist Says Yes.

This artist's conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists Have Discovered a Black Hole Close to Earth

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla

Elon Musk Is the Ultimate Armchair Epidemiologist

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US Navy video of a UFO

Navy Formally Releases Footage of Pilots Encountering UFOs

Plastic ocean waste forms the image of a whale on a beach

How Companies Are Turning Ocean Plastic Into Clothing

coronavirus deaths

Two People Died of Coronavirus Weeks Before First Known US Death

50 Years of Earth Day: How America Led, Lost and Hopes to Reclaim the Environmental Movement

The 50 Biggest Moments in Environmentalism Since the First Earth Day

McMurdo Station

How Isolation Can Lead to the Birth of New Accents

Why do armchair epidemiologists have such all-encompassing belief in their own interpretation of COVID-19 data?

The Dangerous Rise of the Armchair Epidemiologist

Launch Complex 39A

NASA and SpaceX Ready May Launch for ISS Mission

Astronauts returning to Earth

Pre-Coronavirus Astronauts Return to a Post-Coronavirus Planet

Reykjanes peninsula

Iceland's Volcanic Activity Could Affect Travel for Decades

5G Tower

Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories Prompt 5G Tower Arson

Mosquito biting a human

Can Google’s Debug Project Actually Get Rid of Mosquitoes?

At heart, the story of the Snoo is a healthcare story about what our federal system does and doesn’t value.

One Doctor's Quest to Solve a Parenting Epidemic: Bad Sleep

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