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During this upcoming week, skywatchers across most of the U.S. and southern Canada will get an opportunity to view the two largest space vehicles now in orbit around the Earth within minutes of each other.

They are the International Space Station…

Very massive stars that collapse to create black holes may vomit out much more material during their short lives than we previously thought.

To fit with astronomical observations of these stars, which have masses over 100 times that of the sun, a…

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• In 2076, the dwarf planet Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 11,400 years, and scientists are now figuring out the best way to visit the outer solar system visitor before its…

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s April 20 encounter with Donaldjohanson, an asteroid in our solar system’s…

Neanderthals in central Germany 125,000 years ago employed an advanced method of food preparation, according to a recent study: systematically stripping fat from the bones of large animals using water and heat. The practice, uncovered at the…

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Making biofuels is messy, inefficient and expensive. Vast quantities of crops such as maize and soyabeans must be grown, harvested and processed before their energy, accumulated slowly through natural photosynthesis, can be put to use. Nate…