Space tourists will probably have sex up there, but they shouldn't get pregnant, researchers warn

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Space sex could be on the horizon.

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How to watch Virgin Galactic's first space tourist launch 300,000 feet above the ground

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Jon Goodwin, an 80-year-old British Olympian, and mother-daughter duo Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers, will be on Virgin Galactic's first private commercial spaceflight.

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Watch Virgin Galactic's first ever space tourist flight at 11am ET

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Virgin Galactic might hit another milestone today in its quest to provide trips to suborbital space. If the weather cooperates and everything goes as planned for the company, its first private passenger flight will be taking off from its Spaceport America facility at 11AM EDT.

Virgin Galactic 02 launch live updates: Flight will take mother, daughter, Olympian to space

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A photo shows Jon Goodwin, and mother-daughter duo Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers, posing in their spacesuits in front of a purple background.
Left to right: Anastatia Mayers, Jon Goodwin, and Keisha Schahaff are flying to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic's first tourism spaceflight.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted a question mark in deep space. It could be 2 galaxies colliding.

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NASA, what is this?

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More than 300 people live year-round in Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth. Here's what it's like.

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Kids who live in Death Valley, California, enjoy the playground in the Cow Creek residential area.

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Researchers are shocked to find 2 great white sharks have become 'buddies' since the predators are typically solitary creatures

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A great white shark off the coast of Cape Cod in 2022.

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How a sheep wagon became one man's doomsday survival plan

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Aaron Fletcher has been preparing for doomsday for 15 years. See how a nomadic shepherd thinks everyone will have to live in a post-apocalyptic world.

Could the curse of Tutankhamun’s tomb be caused by fungi?

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The gold funerary mask of King Tutankhamun is on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

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Massive explosions from the sun pose a radioactive triple threat to the moon, Earth, and Mars

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A picture of the sun taken on May 18 shows a powerful solar flare being released.

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