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The New York Times

Nearly half a million years ago, humans in Africa were assembling wood into large structures, according to a study published Thursday that describes notched and tapered logs buried under sand in Zambia. The discovery drastically pushes back the …

CNN

The excavation team uncovers the wooden structure along the bank of Zambia’s Kalambo River. Professor Larry Barham/University of Liverpool. Editor’s Note: Sign up for …

ABC News

The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid. Scientists anticipate getting about a half pound (250 grams) …

Space.com

“Previous estimates for the expected amount of ice in cold traps have to be revised downward dramatically.” Comments (0). a grey and black shadowed surface covered in craters. The Cabeus Crater near the moon’s south pole, where water ice was found in …

The New York Times

After a year spent listening to the constant hum of the complicated machinery that keeps the International Space Station livable, the astronaut Frank Rubio is looking forward to some silence on Earth. Mr. Rubio is scheduled to return to land next week …

Space.com

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), or magnetic bursts of plasma from the sun’s corona, are fearsome indeed. They can drive high-energy space storms for millions of miles and endanger satellites, astronauts and even electronics within Earth’s atmosphere.

CNN

Geneticists have for the first time isolated and decoded RNA molecules from a creature that died out long ago. The genetic material — which came from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, …

Space.com

WFST was jointly developed by the University of Science and Technology of China and the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Space.com

A faint “bridge” of gas connects two colliding galaxies in a new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Arp 107 system includes a pair of galaxies that are in the process of merging. Located about 465 million light-years from Earth, the galactic …

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX will push the boundaries of booster reusability Tuesday night with the scheduled launch of a Falcon 9 using a first stage rocket making its 17th flight. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral with 22 satellites for the Starlink internet network …