NASA is visiting an asteroid valued at more than the entire world economy's worth, but that's not why it's going there

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An artistic concept of what Psyche might look like.

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A 'ring of fire' solar eclipse is happening in the US this weekend but if you miss it there's another one in 2024. This NASA map shows where and when to spot both.

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A total solar eclipse photographed from the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, near Mitchell, Oregon.

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A rare solar eclipse is happening in the US this weekend and 68 million Americans have the chance to see it. Here's when, where, and how to see this spectacular 'ring of fire' safely.

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An annular solar eclipse as seen by Japan's Hinode spacecraft.

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Neanderthals hunted cave lions at least 48,000 years ago, and feasted on their meat, ancient bones reveal

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Pictures of the cave lion remains show the ancient bones placed on a black background. The camera has zoomed in on the cave lion's skull, featuring fearsome teeth.
The remains of a 50,000-year-old cave lion suggest it was hunted by Neanderthals.

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A 21-year-old won $40,000 for using AI to read the first word on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius

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A charred black Herculaneum scroll with red laser lines being scanned at Institut de France by Brent Seales and his team
The University of Kentucky team scanned the Herculaneum scroll and took X-ray images of the inside.

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2 women chasing a climbing record across 14 mountains both died in avalanches on their last peak

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Mount Shishapangma
Mount Shishapangma in southern Tibet, China.

Photographer: Reinhard Goldmann 50829 Cologne, Germany

This otherworldly image of an alien-like golden crab has won gold in Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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A picture shows a horseshoe crab dredging the mud accompanied by three small golden fish
A tri-spine horseshoe crab moves slowly over the mud. Its golden protective carapace hides 12 appendages. Above the horseshoe crab, a trio of juvenile golden trevallies are poised to dart down for edible morsels ploughed up by its passage.

Laurent Ballesta / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Remarkable video showed a false killer whale twisting and twirling in front of divers. The species is known to socialize with humans, even bringing them large fish.

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Man free diving with false killer whales, Revillagigedo Islands, Socorro, Baja California, Mexico.
A man free diving with false killer whales, Revillagigedo Islands, Socorro, Baja California, Mexico.

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A helicopter sparked a massive crocodile mating sex frenzy when they probably mistook the sound for a giant thunderstorm

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Dozens of saltwater crocodiles in a pen at Johnstone River Crocodile Farm in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia in 2006.

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Image shows the last remaining debris from the Titan submersible implosion recovered by the Coast Guard

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The US Coast Guard recovered the aft titanium endcap from the Titan submersible, in the North Atlantic Ocean, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. The endcap was recently recovered from the seafloor and successfully transferred to a U.S. port for analysis.

(U.S. National Transportation Safety Board via AP)

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