The world hasn't been this warm in 100,000 years

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A person cools off in a fountain during a heat wave in Rome this past July.
A person cools off during a heat wave in Rome this past July.

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Scientists want to use a self-consuming rocket to help control the space junk problem

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3 researchers standing next to rocket engine prototype
The researchers and their prototype.

University of Glasgow

Astrobotic's lander might still travel far enough to reach the moon, but the moon won't be there

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A picture taken from an onboard camera shows on of the sides of Astrobotic's Peregrine lander. A small sliver of light is seen on the right hand side.
A new snap of the Peregrine lander was shared by Astrobotic on X on Tuesday.

Astrobotic

A shark regenerated an entire hole in its fin in under a year and scientists got the amazing transformation on camera

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A live shark's fin with a giant hole in it.
Rather than a tracking tag telling scientists where this shark traveled, its violent removal let them observe an unexpected regeneration process.

Josh Schellenberg, CC BY-ND

Researchers were surprised to discover a second fetus inside a 2,000-year-old mummy over 100 years after archeologists found it

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A mummified woman's head and shoulders with her hair in braids and face turned to the side
Though the mummified woman's head is missing, a photograph of her remains.

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Astrobiotic thinks it knows what caused the fuel leak that doomed the first US moon mission since Apollo

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A picture taken from an onboard camera shows on of the sides of Astrobotic's Peregrine lander. A small sliver of light is seen on the right hand side.
A new snap of the Peregrine lander was shared by Astrobotic on X on Tuesday.

Astrobotic

It looks like China will leapfrog the US in the race to the moon after a fuel leak ruined a pivotal mission

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A Long March 5 rocket blasts off from its launchpad
China launched its previous robotic mission to the moon, Chang'e 5, from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in November 2020.

Jin Liwang/Xinhua via Getty Images

A giant, boiling, shrinking planet has a tail stretching 350,000 miles into space, astronomers discover

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An artist's impression of WASP-69b orbiting its host star. The shedding atmosphere forms a comet-like tail behind the planet.
An artist's impression of WASP-69b orbiting its host star. The shedding atmosphere forms a comet-like tail behind the planet.

W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko

NASA's $93 billion moon-landing program looks really bad right now

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A full moon behind the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft on the mobile launcher
NASA announced astronauts won't fly to the moon before 2025.

Cory Huston/NASA via AP

A mysterious note was discovered in the secret pocket of a dress from the 1880s. A decade later, someone finally cracked the code.

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Three view of a bronze silk dress from the 1880s from different angles
Sara Rivers Cofield found a hidden pocket in this dress from the 1880s, containing what was once thought to be an unsolvable code.

Sara Rivers Cofield

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