Articles filed under Science
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NASA spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid, sets recordsDec 31, 2018 6:00 am - LAUREL, Md. (AP) - A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft entered orbit Monday around the...
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Pluto explorer ushering in new year at more distant worldDec 27, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world. NASA...
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Oil pipeline triggers a winter of frigid protest in MichiganDec 27, 2018 12:00 am - LEVERING, Mich. - By midafternoon, the snow had picked up - tiny, innocuous flecks becoming heavy, wet drops - but no one at Camp Anishinaabek seemed to notice. There we...
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Russia: Hole drilled from inside Int'l Space Station capsuleDec 24, 2018 6:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian cosmonaut who explored a mysterious hole in a capsule docked to the International Space Station said Monday that the opening was drilled from ins...
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SpaceX launches Air Force's best GPS yet, ends banner yearDec 23, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - SpaceX has launched the U.S. Air Force's most powerful GPS satellite ever built. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, ...
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Science Says: A big space crash likely made Uranus lopsidedDec 21, 2018 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at l...
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What makes chickens happy? Nobody is quite sureDec 20, 2018 6:00 am - NEW YORK - How do you measure a chicken's happiness? Is it in the way it runs for food? How much time it spends preening? To size up what might make chickens happy in th...
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Mars lander sets quake monitor on planet's red surfaceDec 20, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's new Mars lander has placed a quake monitor on the planet's dusty red surface, just a few weeks after its arrival. Mars InSight 's robo...
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3 astronauts return from International Space StationDec 20, 2018 6:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Three astronauts returned to Earth Thursday after more than six months aboard the International Space Station. A Russian Soyuz capsule with NASA's Serena A...
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NASA's 1st flight to moon, Apollo 8, marks 50th anniversaryDec 18, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Fifty years ago on Christmas Eve, a tumultuous year of assassinations, riots and war drew to a close in heroic and hopeful fashion with the t...