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SpaceX's megarocket lifts off on its seventh test flight from the Starbase launch site near Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday.

SpaceX executes ‘chopsticks’ booster catch but Starship spacecraft explosion temporarily diverts flights

SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket is launched on its sixth test at the company's Boca Chica launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., November 19, 2024. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

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‘New generation’ Starship set to push boundaries in highly anticipated launch

The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sits at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during its launch on January 16, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket, the company’s first SpaceX contender

4th March 1938: A Dodo skeleton opposite a reconstructed model of the extinct bird in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

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Scientists say they are close to resurrecting a lost species. Is the age of de-extinction upon us?

Bargibant's Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti)

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From the sex lives of pygmy seahorses to parasites living in fish nostrils: these photos tell extraordinary ocean stories

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience lunar landers, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 15, 2025.

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SpaceX launches two moon missions in one fell swoop

Firefly's Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander will deliver 10 NASA CLPS science payloads to Mare Crisium.

Firefly Aerospace

The next leg of the new moon race is about to kick off — and it could be the most exciting yet

The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on its pad ahead of the launch attempt in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 13.

Blue Origin stands down from New Glenn launch attempt — again

Kisui Tech has developed a robot, called Adam, to help Japan's ageing farmers. It can to carry produce up hills, cut grass, and spray fields with pesticides. <strong>Scroll through the gallery to see more innovations that are changing farming.</strong>

Moon rover-inspired robot could be a game-changer for Japan’s aging farmers

13 January 2025, Saxony, Dresden: View from Dresden to Radebeul of the setting moon in the morning. Photo: Robert Michael/dpa (Photo by Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images)

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See the full wolf moon overtake Mars in the night sky and glimpse a planetary parade

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In 1922, American chemist, Thomas Midgley, Jr. discovered tetraethyl, an antiknock agent in gasoline, which led to the establishment of the ethyl gasoline industry. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Once celebrated, an inventor’s breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters — and the world is still recovering

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‘Dyson spheres’ were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they’ve found potential evidence

KARS, TURKIYE - MAY 18: A view of moon, appearing in the sky in the evening hours in Kars, Turkey, on May 18, 2024. (Photo by Omer Tarsuslu/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Why scientists say we need to send clocks to the moon — soon

B8C6TT MEXICAN AXOLOTL

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Why axolotls seem to be everywhere — except in the one lake they call home

Space

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A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 10, 2025.

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A powerful potential challenger to SpaceX’s rocket dominance is poised to launch

On a long-dormant pad in Florida, a rocket that could challenge SpaceX’s dominance is poised to launch

Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory

NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache

Archaeology

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A silver amulet discovered in Germany sheds new light on the spread of Christianity during the late Roman period.

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Silver amulet discovered in Germany could rewrite Christian history in Europe

Scientists think they know why Stonehenge was rebuilt thousands of years ago

Cannons abandoned by doomed Spanish expedition are thought to be oldest firearms found in US

Grisly remains point to a bleak, ancient chapter in British history

Life

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Orca mom is carrying a dead calf for the second time, raising concerns among scientists

The comb jelly, one of the oldest animals on Earth, can fuse with another

‘Mystery volcano’ that erupted and cooled Earth in 1831 has finally been identified

Scientists have identified an estimated 10% of all species on Earth. Here’s what they found in 2024

Paleontology

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An illustration depicting the therapsid

Henry Sutherland Sharpe

Ancient saber-toothed predator found in Spain is the oldest of its kind

Fossilized poop reveals secrets of how dinosaurs came to dominate Earth

Baby saber-toothed cat mummy found in Siberia with intact skin, fur and toes is ‘mind-blowing,’ scientists say

Ancient ‘terror birds’ were giant apex predators. Suspected new species is among the largest ever known