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The Crew-11 spaceflyers — NASA's Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui of Japan and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov — splashed ...

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The United States is stepping back from the most direct test yet of possible alien biology on Mars just as new telescopes and ...

"Today, we sent funding bills to the president's desk that reject the steep cuts he wanted and protect investments that ...

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The difference in the scope of their crisis focus represents the most evident divergence in their thinking. Hawking's ...