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'Magical' rock crystals found at Stone Age ceremonial site in England

'Magical' rock crystals found at Stone Age ceremonial site...

Hundreds of fragments of a rare transparent type of quartz called "rock crystal"...

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Scientists blast atoms with Fibonacci laser to make an 'extra' dimension of time

Scientists blast atoms with Fibonacci laser to make an...

The new phase was made by firing lasers at 10 ytterbium ions inside a quantum computer.

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For the first time, scientists have named a heat wave

For the first time, scientists have named a heat wave

For the first time, authorities have given a heat wave a name. Scientists hope that...

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On This Day In Space: Aug. 21, 1914: Total Solar Eclipse expedition crashed by World War I

On This Day In Space: Aug. 21, 1914: Total Solar Eclipse...

On Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse temporarily darkened skies across Europe...

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Photobombing exoplanets might thwart search for extraterrestrial life

Photobombing exoplanets might thwart search for extraterrestrial...

Exoplanet images might be contaminated by the light from their neighbors, a new...

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Hubble Space Telescope photo shows star-studded globular cluster near Milky Way's core

Hubble Space Telescope photo shows star-studded globular...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a star-studded cluster in the...

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'Just Like Being There': Award-winning science fiction author Eric Choi talks Star Trek, storytelling and more

'Just Like Being There': Award-winning science fiction...

Hard science fiction author Eric Choi talks about the inspiration behind the stories...

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A month on 'Mars': Flags and footprints of the moon and Arctic

A month on 'Mars': Flags and footprints of the moon and...

The Haughton-Mars Project is planting flags and leaving footprints, but in a very...

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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship returns to Earth from space station

SpaceX Dragon cargo ship returns to Earth from space station

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship returned to Earth with an ocean splashdown on Saturday...

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 25 — A beginner's guide to dying in space

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 25 — A beginner's guide...

Rod Pyle and Geoffrey Notkin chat with NASA flight surgeon Bill Tarver on what it...

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On This Day In Space: Aug. 20, 1977: Voyager 2 launches to the outer planets

On This Day In Space: Aug. 20, 1977: Voyager 2 launches...

On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore...

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The top space stories of the week!

The top space stories of the week!

NASA's moon megarocket prepares for launch, a Russian spacewalk aborts, and Mars...

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Space photos: The most amazing images this week!

Space photos: The most amazing images this week!

See the best photos on Space.com this week.

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X-ray experiment set for 15-minute flight to space to study supernova remnants

X-ray experiment set for 15-minute flight to space to study...

A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission is all set to make a short trip to space to...

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China launches latest group of Yaogan 35 spy satellites

China launches latest group of Yaogan 35 spy satellites

China launched three classified remote sensing satellites on Friday (Aug. 19), which...

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Europe is looking at space-based solar power to address energy crisis

Europe is looking at space-based solar power to address...

The European Space Agency will ask its member states to fund a preparatory space-based...