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Surprising asteroid sample reveals Bennu may have originated from an ocean world
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Musk's SpaceX hired to destroy ISS space station
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A weird sea creature was anatomically unlike anything ever seen — flipping it around led to a revelation
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‘Remarkably preserved’ 500-million-year-old sea creature discovered
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Astronauts stuck aboard ISS as Starliner issues delay return
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NASA Astronauts Again Postpone Return To Earth After Boeing Spacecraft Issues
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Decades after the famed Kyrenia shipwreck’s discovery, researchers have a new estimate of when it sank
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WATCH: NASA enhances weather observation with GOES-U satellite launch
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Large asteroid to pass between Earth and the moon on Saturday
Earth is surrounded by rocky bodies and bits of debris from when the solar system formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. On Saturday, one of those leftover rocks will whiz past Earth.The asteroid is called 2024 MK and, at its closest, it will pass roughly 290,000 km from Earth. While we have plenty of small asteroids that are scattered within Earth's orbit, this one is sizeable, ranging anywhere from 120 metres to 260 metres in diameter. But there's another interesting — and somewhat disquieting
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Space junk cleanup: One company is creating a space 'tow truck'
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‘Panic mode’ Democrats begin calling for Biden to step aside after ‘horrible’ debate performance against Trump
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Boy, 14, was held down and hacked to death at Wyoming mall while he tried to protect his girlfriend
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