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NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

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Focusing on an area off the coast of Crescent City, California, the researchers used autonomous and remotely operated ...

Embarking from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the 11 ...

A new digital system allows operations on a chip to run in parallel, so an AI program can arrive at the best possible answer ...

From high-wind forecasts and wildfire behavior to floods, aviation hazards, air quality and space weather, science developed ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

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