SpaceX is attempting its 3rd Starship launch today. Watch live to see if the rocket explodes again or finally reaches orbit.

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A screengrab from SpaceX's livestream on X shows Starship lifting off for its second attempt at space.

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Mars could be creating 'giant whirlpools' deep within our planet's oceans

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A photo montage shows a composite image of Mars next to a satellite image of ocean currents swirling off the coast of Ireland.
A photo montage shows Mars (left) which some scientists say can influence Earth's ocean currents, like the eddies seen here off the coast of Ireland (right).

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Jeff Bezos' philanthropic fund is pouring $60 million into alternative meats to try to make them taste better

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A stock image of plant-based meat and Jeff Bezos at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

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NASA is hiring astronauts for $152K a year. Here's how to stand out from the thousands of other applicants, according to the selection manager

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The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission (left to right): NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman (seated), Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

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A comet larger than Everest will streak through the night sky in the coming weeks. Here's how to see it.

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Another green comet, called ISON, passed Earth in 2013.

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Jimmy Fallon wakes up at 6 a.m. to a sunrise alarm clock and then checks his WHOOP score to see how he slept

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A signal linked to aliens by a Harvard professor may have been caused by a passing truck

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A photo montage showsAvi Loeb (left) says he recovered the remnants of an interstellar meteor on the sea floor near Papua New Guinea (right)

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Jupiter's moon Europa generates enough oxygen to keep a million people alive for a day, NASA says

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This illustration of Europa shows how its icy surface may shine even on its night side, because Jupiter is constantly bombarding it with radiation.

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Should we end daylight-saving time?

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Moving clocks forward by an hour might seem harmless. But many are calling for an end to daylight-saving time because it could harm our health.

'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian

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J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.
J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.

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