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An asteroid believed to be from another solar system has been found orbiting the Sun in the wrong direction.
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The space agency is moving forward with its plan to send a helicopter drone to Mars in two years' time.
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Organizers of Stephen Hawking's memorial service have seemingly left the door open to visitors from the future.
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Jumping spiders are capable of launching themselves six times their body length from a standing start.
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For the first time ever, scientists have detected helium in the atmosphere of a planet in orbit around a distant star.
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The Oakabella Homestead in Australia is trying to shake its haunted status in an effort to attract more visitors.
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In recent years, the magnetic field that surrounds and protects our planet has been gradually weakening.
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The upcoming 12 megawatt wind power platform will be almost three times the height of the Statue of Liberty.
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The NOAA's Okeanos Explorer vessel filmed this extraordinary cephalopod during a recent expedition.
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Scientists have warned that cows could eventually become the largest remaining mammals on Earth.
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Virgin Galactic's new spaceplane blasted through the sky on Thursday after firing its rocket engine for the first time.
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This new real-time graphics demo shows off an eerily ultra-realistic computer-generated Andy Serkis.
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China's out-of-control Tiangong-1 space lab is now expected to fall to Earth over the Easter weekend.
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One astronomer was left red-faced this week after he mistook the planet Mars for an undiscovered star.
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The accident marks the first time that a pedestrian has ever been killed by an autonomous vehicle.
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Known as Biostasis, the program aims to increase the odds of survival for injured soldiers on the battlefield.
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Scientists have used modern scanning techniques to discover what thylacine infants really looked like.
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A man who claims to have traveled back in time has made several predictions about the future.
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The autonomous flying passenger drone has taken to the skies for the first time at a test site in Oregon.
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The act of hitting tree trunks thousands of times may actually be giving woodpeckers brain damage.