NASA introduces the new astronaut class of 2021
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Ten men and women are ready to begin training so they can journey to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond.…
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Tiny living Pac-Man robots have learned how to reproduce
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Whenever we’re confronted with aspects of science fiction becoming scientific reality, philosophical questions arise.…
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism. June 14, 1940 –…
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By Zahra Ullah, CNN The International Space Station had to adjust its orbit to avoid collision with a piece of debris from a US rocket, the head of…
Continue ReadingNASA is about to launch a laser demo that could revolutionize space communication
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The use of invisible lasers in space may sound like something from science fiction, but it’s real. NASA’s…
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Continue ReadingA year on this exoplanet only lasts about 8 hours
By Ashley Strickland, CNN If you think there aren’t enough hours in the day on Earth, this newly discovered planet will make your head spin. On…
Continue ReadingA ferocious marine reptile with gnarly teeth for crushing prey was discovered in Colombia
By Megan Marples, CNN Scientists revealed a newly discovered marine ichthyosaur species with gnarly teeth that was found in Colombia. The partial…
Continue ReadingRepealing Roe v. Wade would set the US apart from other leading democracies. Here’s how some key nations view abortion
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By Rob Picheta, CNN The United States Supreme Court appears poised to pare down, or even entirely overturn, nearly five decades of constitutional…
Continue ReadingNASA astronauts successfully conduct spacewalk postponed due to debris risk
By Ashley Strickland, CNN During a six and a half hour spacewalk Thursday, NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron replaced a…
Continue ReadingHow South African scientists discovered Omicron and set off a global chain reaction
By Tim Lister and David McKenzie, CNN In the early days of November, laboratory technicians at Lancet Laboratories in Pretoria, South Africa, found…
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Continue ReadingAstronauts celebrate record-breaking chile harvest in space with taco night
By Ashley Strickland, CNN While we were eating Thanksgiving leftovers and shopping sales on Black Friday, astronauts on the International Space…
Continue ReadingNew armored dinosaur found in Chile had bizarre weaponized tail
By Katie Hunt, CNN A new species of armored dinosaur discovered in Chile had a weaponized tail not seen before in any other dinosaur. Roughly 2…
Continue ReadingOmicron was in Europe long before travel bans on southern Africa
By Tara John, CNN When South African officials sounded the alarm on the new Omicron variant last Thursday, stocks around the world tumbled and up to…
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Continue ReadingDebris warning postpones NASA spacewalk
By Ashley Strickland and Katie Hunt, CNN NASA has postponed a spacewalk that was scheduled for Tuesday after receiving a space debris warning for the…
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