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Dark matter data salvaged from balloon-borne telescope that landed hard on Earth

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A NASA telescope that launched on a football-stadium-sized balloon earlier this year lost communication with Earth and suffered damage upon ...

Gamma-ray burst in faraway galaxy disturbed Earth’s upper atmosphere

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About two billion years ago in a galaxy far beyond our Milky Way, a ...

Band of seals attack great white shark off coast of Africa

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Giant seal pod goes on offense against hungry great white shark A seal pod on the coast of South Africa ...

Martian rocks keep hitting Earth, but something doesn’t add up

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Martian rocks keep hitting Earth, but something doesn’t add up

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For thousands of years, Martian rocks have bombarded Earth, sent flying through space after being ejected from their homeworld by ...

Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars

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Some astronomy targets are less celestial in nature than others. Joining stars, planets, nebulas, and galaxies as a target for ...

NASA probe to observe near-Earth asteroid’s 2029 close encounter

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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – About 5-1/2 years from now, astronomers predict, an asteroid about as wide as the Empire ...

Climate change effects threaten sharks, studies find. Here’s why.

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The ocean’s most feared but fascinating predators face increasing dangers from the world’s warming oceans, scientists found in two international ...

NASA’s SWOT satellite maps nearly of all Earth’s water (video)

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NASA shared striking views of nearly all of Earth’s water in new maps of the planet’s global sea levels. Data ...

Earth: Kilonova explosion in space could bring catastrophe and disrupt earth for 1000 years

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Scientists have uncovered that violent star collisions, known as kilonovae, have the potential to pose a catastrophic threat to our ...