[ad_1] A successful test flight Virgin Orbit, a Virgin Galactic spin-off, flew her LauncherOne rocket for the first time this Sunday, November 18th. The company conducted the test flight with the 21-meter …
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[ad_1] Catastrophic floods More than 3.5 billion years ago, water flowed freely over the surface of Mars, forming lakes and seas. New research shows that these lakes may have overflowed and burst …
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[ad_1] There’s a “dark matter hurricane” blowing through our corner of the Milky Way galaxy. Right this second, it’s passing over Earth. And this fast-moving stream could reveal major details about dark …
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[ad_1] Forty years later, the American astronomer Edward Fath revisited the question of Abbe. After measuring the orientations of hundreds of galaxies on photographic plates taken at the Mount Wilson Observatory, he …
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[ad_1] In 1974, a team of paleoanthropologists led by Donald Johanson discovered about 40% of his fossilized skeleton. She was a member of the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis and is probably the …
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