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This astronomy student found 17 new exoplanets -- and one is potentially habitable...
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Michelle Kunimoto has a knack for finding exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars outside of our solar system.

Asteroid Dust Triggered an Explosion of Life on Earth 466 Million Years Ago...
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A distant, long-ago asteroid collision may have triggered an ice age and a burst of new life on Earth, according to new research.

Mysterious object from interstellar space 'approaching our solar system'...
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A MYSTERIOUS object from deep space is fizzing towards the Solar System and scientists have no idea what it is. Dubbed "C/2019 Q4", the high-speed body appears to be on a path originating from another star system that will see it fire past Mars in

Water Vapor Detected in Atmosphere of an Alien World Nearly Twice the Size of Earth...
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Scientists have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b.

Joe Biden bloody eye, memory woes overshadow 2020 bid...

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden's red eyes and shaky memory have become major media stories in recent days, complicating the 76-year-old Democrat's insistence that he is up for running the White House. Coverage of Mr. Biden's tired expre

Alien alert: Scientist warns humans should NEVER make contact with ET - 'Risk too great'...
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HUMANS should avoid making contact with aliens, a scientist has warned, due to fears extraterrestrial life might wish us harm.

"Death of Cyclops" Scientists are Looking at Aging as a Curable Disease...
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"Each Cyclops had a single eye because, legend has it, the mythical giants traded the other one with the god Hades in return for the ability to see into the future. But Hades tricked them: the only vision the Cyclopes were shown was the day they would

Study shows some exoplanets may have greater variety of life than exists on Earth...
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A new study indicates that some exoplanets may have better conditions for life to thrive than Earth itself has. "This is a surprising conclusion," said lead researcher Dr. Stephanie Olson, "it shows us that conditions on some exoplanets with f

Cheap flights available via JetBlue two-day sale...
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Boutique New York-based airline JetBlue launched a two-day "Fly As You May" fare sale Tuesday with tons of great deals and fares as low as $44 one-way and just 88 bucks roundtrip, depen...

Two Spa Patients Contract HIV After Getting Vampire Facial...
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Facials may be harmless most of the time, but health officials say it's important to be cautious when injections are involved like in 'vampire facials.' Two people who went for a vampire facial are now diagnosed with HIV.

Game of Thrones cinematographer defends 'too dark' episode...
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"People don't know how to tune their TVs properly."

NASA head: Expect a major asteroid strike in your lifetime...
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Visions of space rocks slamming into Earth aren't just for dinosaurs and Hollywood movies.

Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent...
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After a string of discoveries, alien life is not as far-fetched as it used to be.

"Unfathomable Abodes of Life?" Water Worlds of the Milky Way...
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Beautiful blue planets with endless oceans may be orbiting many of the Milky Way's one trillion stars. In 2016, for example, Kepler astronomers discovered planets that are unlike anything in our solar system a "water world" planetary system or

Beresheet: Israel spacecraft crashes during historic moon landing attempt, SpaceIL support team says...
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An attempt by Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL to land its spacecraft Beresheet on the moon has failed after the lunar lander crashed.

A Japanese spacecraft may have just blown a crater in a distant asteroid...
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Samples from Ryugu's interior could lead to new insights into the early solar system

It's not your imagination: This Facebook outage is massive...
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Facebook is in the midst of its biggest outage in recent memory. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have been down for users around the world for at least five hours . The company hasn't commented on exactly how many of its users are affected, but repo

Facebook, Instagram outage spreads globally...
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Reports on Downdetector, a website for reporting problems on applications and websites, have ranged from troubles logging into accounts to the inability to post comments or photos.

Facebook turns to Twitter to explain outages...
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Facebook, the world's largest social network, relied on Twitter on Wednesday to explain that its apps inclding WhatsApp and Instagram were experiencing outages around the world.

Kepler Space Telescope's 1st Exoplanet Candidate Finally Confirmed...
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The find is a fitting tribute to Kepler, which has discovered nearly 70 percent of all known exoplanets.

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