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Shenzhou-17 launch: China has sent its youngest-ever astronaut crew to the Tiangong space station

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Planet-forming disk detected around star in another galaxy for the first time

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SpaceX Starship’s second test flight ends in loss of megarocket

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Intricate animal patterns: A new study could have the answer

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Did the same collision that formed the moon create mysterious blobs inside Earth?

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Six exoplanets spotted in a cosmic waltz around nearby star

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Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend

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New analysis identifies largest threat to thousands of species facing extinction

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NASA mission captures image of surprising asteroid pair

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Birdlike footprints from Triassic mystery animals precede earliest bird fossils by 60 million years

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