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Mike Pence's unbelievable answer on whether climate change is a threat

The world's favorite super-cheap computer just got a big upgrade

Curiosity rover detects highest levels of methane on Mars

Watch a giant squid caught on camera

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on February 6, 2018, on its demonstration mission.
The world's most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, blasted off Tuesday on its highly anticipated maiden test flight, carrying CEO Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster to an orbit near Mars. Screams and cheers erupted at Cape Canaveral, Florida as the massive rocket fired its 27 engines and rumbled into the blue sky over the same NASA launchpad that served as a base for the US missions to Moon four decades ago.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy will launch Bill Nye's science experiment into orbit

Could coffee help you lose weight? New research suggests a fat-busting effect

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First look: Living, breathing, eating Star Wars in Disney's new theme park land

TOPSHOT - An Ariane 5 lifts off from its launchpad in Kourou, at the European Space Center in French Guiana, on June 20, 2019. - It's payload is two satellites, AT&T T-16, a telecommunications satellite build by Airbus Defence and Space, and EUTELSAT 7C. (Photo by jody amiet / AFP) (Photo credit should read JODY AMIET/AFP/Getty Images)

Frozen sperm can survive space travel, preliminary study suggests

Start your Monday smart: Iran, 2020 Dems, Stonewall, G20, El Chapo, 'Apollo 11'

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Michael Collins on how Apollo 11 united the world

Mike Pence won't say if he views climate crisis as threat to US

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Watch these scientists dig up dinosaur bones

Dinosaur dig in Littleton, CO

Scientists say dinosaur fossils found in Colorado are those of a 68 million years old triceratops

Part of US gets June snow

Apollo 11 is paving a path from the moon to Mars

Giant squid captured on camera for the first time in the US

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Bill Nye's explanation for strange UFO sightings

During its flight, NASA's Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon. Separate images of the Earth and Moon were combined to generate this view. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00342

NASA wants astronauts to go back to the moon in 2024. Is it possible?

One of these 12 women astronauts will go to the moon

From Jeff Bezos' Twitter post "First hotfire of our #BE7 lunar landing engine just yesterday at Marshall Space Flight Center. Data looks great and hardware is in perfect condition. Test went full planned duration -- 35 seconds. Kudos to the whole @BlueOrigin team and grateful to @NASA_Marshall for all the help!"

Blue Origin test fires its BE-7 rocket engine, designed for the perfect moon landing

title: Go Fast: Official USG Footage of UAP for Public Release duration: 00:02:05 site: Youtube author: null published: Fri Mar 09 2018 14:44:19 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) intervention: no description: GO FAST is the third of three official USG videos selected for release after official review by multiple government organizations. While To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science was the first to obtain a copy, it should be available to any member of the press or public via the Freedom of Information Act. This footage was captured by a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet using the Raytheon ATFLIR Pod that was being operated by a highly trained aerial observer and weapons system operator whom the government has spent millions of dollars to train

Talk of UFOs comes to Washington

The National Weather Service in Kansas City tweeted out this photo of the two small white spheres high in the sky.

Two mysterious objects were seen floating above Kansas City. They (probably) weren't aliens

The video, recently released by the US Department of Defense, shows Navy fighter jet pilots witnessing an unidentified object flying off the coast of San Diego in 2004.

Why pilots are seeing UFOs

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White House official once appeared on podcast whose host touted race pseudoscience and interviewed white nationalists

NASA Chief: Going back to the moon shouldn't be a political issue

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - MARCH 11: In this handout photo provided by NASA, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine talks to employees about the agencys progress toward sending astronauts to the Moon and on to Mars during a televised event at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 11, 2019 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA's Orion spacecraft, which is scheduled to be flown on Exploration Mission-2, was on display during the event. (Photo by Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images)

NASA Chief: Artemis mission won't jeopardize other funding

View of Moon limb with Earth on the horizon,Mare Smythii Region. Earth rise. This image was taken before separation of the LM and the Command Module during Apollo 11 Mission. Original film magazine was labeled V. Film Type: S0-368 Color taken with a 250mm lens. Approximate photo scale 1:1,300,000. Principal Point Latitude was 3 North by Longitude 85 East. Foward overlap is 90%. Sun angle is High. Approximate Tilt minimum is 65 degrees,maximum is 69. Tilt direction is West (W).

AS11-44-6551 (July 1969) --- This view from the Apollo 11 spacecraft shows the Earth rising above the moon's horizon. The lunar terrain pictured is in the area of Smyth's Sea on the nearside. Coordinates of the center of the terrain are 85 degrees east longitude and 3 degrees north latitude. While astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit.

European Space Agency tests new device to rescue incapacitated astronauts on the Moon

NASA captured the first ever air-to-air images of shock waves interacting from two supersonic T-38 US Air Force jets.

NASA captures 'first' images of supersonic shockwaves colliding in flight

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Creatures thought to be extinct found alive in Honduras' 'Lost City'

These are the challenges of going back to the moon by 2024

HIGHLANDS RANCH, COLORADO - MAY 07: Officers stand watch at the scene of a shooting in which at least seven students were injured at the STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019 in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. (Photo by Tom Cooper/Getty Images)

Colorado school shooting suspect targeted those who ridiculed him, police say

This satellite image on June 15, 2019 shows the drying Puzhal reservoir in Chennai.

More than 500 arrested after protests and clashes as India water crisis worsens

A flown American flag signed by Pilot Michael Collins is expected to sell for at least $60,000.

Pieces of Apollo 11's history are up for auction for the moon landing anniversary

Lanzan canción inédita de Freddie Mercury grabada en 1985

She endured obscene phone calls, had to use men's bathrooms, as one of NASA's first female engineers

Skull morphology of (a) beluga, (b) MCE1356, and (c) narwhal. Photos: Mikkel Høegh Post

The whale skull stumped scientists for years. Now they say it's a rare half-beluga, half-narwhal hybrid

Third day of the National Action Network convention in NYC on April 4, 2019, led by Rev. Al Sharpton. At the podium, John Hickenlooper, the former Governor of Colorado.

In photos: Presidential candidate John Hickenlooper

Engineers built a robot fish that powers itself with 'fake blood'

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Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings

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UFOs are one conspiracy theory that Trump doesn't buy

New stripped-down Freddie Mercury tune is unearthed from 1985

New video of Freddie Mercury emerges

'Song' of rare whale recorded for the first time