Photos show how SpaceX's Starship evolved from a trash-can-shaped prototype to the most powerful rocket ever built

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Side-by-side images show a trach-can0shaped prototype of Starship flying in the air, next to a picture of the latest Starship prototype being stacked on top of its booster.
Side-by-side images show two iterations of Starship, the Starhopper on the right and the Starship megarocket on the left.

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Astronomers are baffled after spotting strange cosmic flares that have 10 billion times more power than the sun

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An artist's illustration shows a bright flash of blue light happening away from a galaxy.
An artist's illustration of an LFBOT, a mysterious flash coming from deep space that baffles scientists.

NASA, ESA, NSF's NOIRLab, Mark Garlick , Mahdi Zamani

A small group of farms in California use more water than entire cities, and it's mostly going to a single crop, according to a new report

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An aerial photo taken of the Colorado river.
The Colorado River flows into Lake Mead.

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Sailors have created a shared heavy metal playlist on Spotify to blast at orcas threatening their boats

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Orcas — like the one seen here at Loro Parque zoo in Spain — have been bumping into boats near Portugal and Spain.
Orcas — like the one seen here at Loro Parque zoo in Spain — have been bumping into boats near Portugal and Spain.

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The head of the FTC says she used ChatGPT to successfully contest a medical bill

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ftc chair Lina Khan

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The Asian longhorned tick spreading across the US can clone itself thousands of times and even kill cattle

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Hundreds of Asian longhorned ticks cover a white lint roller
In about 90 minutes, researchers collected over 9,000 Asian longhorned ticks on a farm in southeast Ohio.

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Comets that bounce around the universe could be delivering the ingredients for life to alien planets

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An artist's impression of exoplanet HD 189733b, which circles its star in 2.2 days.

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Dire wolves, camels, and other extinct giant mammals that used to live in North America

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Three woolly mammoths stand in a field of brownish plants in an artist rendering

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Scientists used a galaxy cluster that warps space-time as a giant magnifying glass to find 2 distant galaxies

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James Webb Space Telescope's view of Pandora's Cluster.

NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh)

Chinese scientists created a robot that can make oxygen on Mars. It could allow humans to someday live on the red planet.

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An artist's impression shows an astronaut kneeling down on Mars as a rocket is shown in the background. The landscape is barren and dusty.
An artist's impression of what an astronaut might look like on Mars.

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