Shipwreck hunters found a schooner that sank in 1881 intact in Lake Michigan

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Shipwreck hunters found the intact remains of a schooner that sank in 1881 in Lake Michigan, they said Thursday.

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Russia dominated the first space race, but now it can't even land on the moon. Photos show the US and China are way ahead.

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NASA's Space Launch System (left) is its new moon rocket. China's Yutu 2 rover (middle) explores the far side of the moon. Russia's Luna-25 lander just crashed (right).

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India launches spacecraft to study the sun a week after landing on the moon

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to recreate India's IT boom with space, a government official told

The early ancestors of humans were reduced to 1,300 individuals and came close to extinction, scientists say

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Homo heidelbergensis,
This evolutionary bottleneck might have led to the emergence of a new species, Homo heidelbergensis,

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Photos show 6,000 octopuses in one spot. It's the largest known gathering ever found and a mystery that scientists only just solved.

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A time-lapse camera developed by MBARI engineers allowed MBARI researchers and collaborators to monitor nesting octopus at the Octopus Garden for more than six months.
A time-lapse camera developed by MBARI engineers allowed them to monitor nesting octopus at the Octopus Garden for more than six months.

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A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope blows past Hubble again, revealing an iconic supernova in unprecedented detail

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The supernova remnant as captured by the James Webb Telescope (left) in 2023 and the Hubble Telescope in 2019 (right).

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Mysterious remains of 3,000-year-old 'Priest of Pacopampa' found buried face down with accessories of human bone

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A 3,000-year-old tomb which archaeologists of the Pacopampa Archaeological Project believe might have honored an elite religious leader in the Andean country some three millennia ago, is pictured in Pacopampa, Peru August 25, 2023.
A 3,000-year-old tomb which archaeologists of the Pacopampa Archaeological Project believe might have honored an elite religious leader in the Andean country some three millennia ago, is pictured in Pacopampa, Peru August

Lasers revealed 6 ancient civilizations that were hiding in plain sight

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LiDAR captured the ruins of a civilization in the Brazilian Amazon.
Lidar captured the ruins of a civilization in the Brazilian Amazon.

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How India landed on the moon and flew to Mars at a fraction of the cost of NASA and Russia missions

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Getting to the moon is expensive, but India managed to do it on a budget.

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Why Russia and India both crashed near the moon's south pole before India nailed the first soft landing there

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The lunar south pole region on the far side of the moon, captured by Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft before its failed attempt to land.

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