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The New York Times

That is what has happened to Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, two NASA astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station in June aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. During the test flight, the propulsion system malfunctioned, and engineers are …

CNN

Amateur fossil hunter Eddie Templeton usually knows when he’s onto something. Having scoured creek banks in Mississippi since he was a kid, Templeton’s made several stunning extinct mammal finds, including a mastodon mandible, numerous bones from a giant …

The New York Times

But in the oceans of the Paleozoic era more than 400 million years ago, animals known popularly as sea scorpions were apex predators that could grow larger than people in size. “They were effectively functioning as …

Space.com

The Perseids, one of the year’s most prolific meteor showers, peaked this week, raining dozens of “shooting stars” per hour through Earth’s skies. Some lucky stargazers caught a double feature of …

Space.com

two large skyscrapers on either side of a large bright full moon – the supermoon blue. A Supermoon Blue Moon rises beyond skyscraper office buildings in the Cuatro Torres business district in Madrid, …

Space.com

An uncrewed Russian cargo ship successfully docked at the International Space Station early Saturday (Aug. 17) to deliver tons of fresh gear, food and other vital supplies. The automated Progress 89 spacecraft linked up with the International Space …

Space.com

SpaceX launched an epic rideshare mission to space today (Aug. 16). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 116 different satellites launched on the company’s Transporter 11 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 2:56 p.m. EDT (1856 GMT; …

CBS News

August’s supermoon blue moon, the first of 2024’s four consecutive supermoons, will appear full from Sunday through Wednesday, giving astronomy fans a rare show when they look to the skies. The full moon will reach peak illumination on Monday at 2:26 …

The Washington Post

An August full moon, often called the sturgeon moon, will grace the sky on Monday. 2 min.

Reuters

WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) – The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature – in some sense, a living fossil. Inhabiting slow-moving and stagnant waters in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana and Paraguay, it is the …