Articles filed under Science
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NASA replaces astronaut on Boeing's 1st crew launchJan 23, 2019 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA has replaced an astronaut assigned to Boeing's first launch with a crew. Astronaut Eric Boe was pulled Tuesday from the upcoming test fl...
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2-for-1: Total lunar eclipse comes with supermoon bonusJan 21, 2019 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The only total lunar eclipse this year and next came with a supermoon bonus. On Sunday night, the moon, Earth and sun lined up to create the ...
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Total lunar eclipse meets supermoon Sunday nightJan 18, 2019 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one. The moon, Earth and sun will line up this weekend for the only total lu...
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Hubble Telescope camera back in action after 1-week shutdownJan 17, 2019 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera is back in action, after a shutdown of just over a week. The Space Telescope Science Institute sa...
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Scientists: Saturn spent billions of years without its ringsJan 17, 2019 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Saturn may have flown solo for billions of years - almost its entire existence - before getting its stunning set of rings, a new study sugges...
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Asteroids are smacking Earth twice as often as beforeJan 17, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Giant rocks from space are falling from the sky more than they used to, but don't worry. For the past 290 million years, large asteroids have been cras...
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Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creatureJan 16, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - How did the earliest land animals move? Scientists have used a nearly 300-million-year old fossil skeleton and preserved ancient footprints to create a...
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Lights, camera, action! Tumbling space snowman in film debutJan 15, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The tumbling space snowman is making its out-of-this-world film premiere. Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Tuesday released the first sti...
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Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980sJan 14, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Antarctica is melting more than six times faster than it did in the 1980s, a new study shows. Scientists used aerial photographs, satellite measurement...
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How your at-home DNA test results could solve cold casesJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - The results seem almost miraculous: an arrest in the killing of a young girl in 1988 after 30 years of searching. The murder of a young couple in 1987, solved in a matte...