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Editor's Note: Correction to the May 20 story, ATLAS telescope discovers first-of-its-kind asteroid. Recently discovered object 2019 LD2 , originally believed to be the first cometary “Jupiter Trojan” asteroid by astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ...

After decades of the U.S. government successfully leading the nation's space aspirations and activities, why go private? There are really two reasons for launching astronauts commercially. Advertisement. One, it saves money. Two, it lets NASA focus on ...

A BBC team tracking coronavirus misinformation has found links to assaults, arsons and deaths - and the potential for even greater indirect harm.

May 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Space Force has started teaching a new series of courses to give new space professionals "warfighting mindsets they will carry with them throughout their entire careers." The 319 CTS instructor cadre began teaching Space ...

From surgical-style disposable masks to washable cotton face coverings to coveted N95 masks, there has been a run on face masks of all kinds since news of the pandemic spread. But one piece of personal protective equipment that has been largely ...

Orlando, Fla. - The City of Cape Canaveral is prepared for a wave of people to view the NASA launch today. Here's the lowdown on parking and traffic: One of the best things you can do if you want to park near the coast is download the Waze mobile app.

"Passports" showing individuals' health status could become the next front for fighting the pandemic.

Watchdog said Revival Shots had suggested its rehydration sachets could help treat the disease.

Pune: Astronomers from Pune were part of an international team that detected ejected material moving at 40% the speed of light from a rare explosive transient named CSS161010 about 500 million light years away. Transients are short duration astronomical ...

(WBNG) -- Apalachin native Douglas Hurley is preparing to make history tomorrow as one of two astronauts on board SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket. This is the first time SpaceX is launching a manned mission to space, and it marks the first time in nine years a ...

Chimpanzee lip-smacks exhibit a speech-like rhythm, a group of researchers led by the University of Warwick have found. They found chimpanzees produce lip-smacks at a speech-like rhythm of open-close mouth cycles close to 5Hz (i.e. 5 open-close cycles ...

Researchers traveled with Inuit hunters near Bowdoin Glacier in Greenland to gather acoustic data on narwhal sounds. Evgeny Podolskiy. Narwhals, the unicorns of the sea, are almost as mysterious as their mythical counterparts. But now we know a lot more ...

Scientists are zeroing in on water quality and environmental concerns of fracking wastewater to determine if it is safe for reuse. Before water produced during hydraulic fracturing is disposed of in waterways or reused in agriculture and other industries, ...

Minecraft represented a massive paradigm shift in games, having served as a popular proto-example of both early access releases and unstructured, creation-based gameplay. More than a decade later, Minecraft Dungeons doesn't strive toward revolutionary, but it may just use the now-familiar trappings of its namesake to introduce a new generation of players to old-school tropes. The dungeon-crawler is a light, breezy introduction to the genre for newcomers and a friendly, low-impact callback for veterans.

Those experienced with games like Diablo or Torchlight already know the basic gist. You venture from a hub area into various environments, battle enemy hordes, occasionally fell some larger-than-life boss monster, and then spend time laying out and sorting through your new loot like a kid who just opened a pack of baseball cards. Rinse, repeat.

Within that framework there is some simplification in Minecraft Dungeons, which helps to make it more inviting. You only have six gear slots--melee, bow, armor, and three artifact-based abilities. You won't find specialized classes or complex skill trees here. Everything is tied to your gear, and the level-ups mostly matter in that they determine the quality of your loot drops.

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If all goes according to plan tomorrow, two NASA astronauts will blast off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, bound for the International Space Station (ISS). It will be the first crewed launch from US soil since 2011, when the Space Shuttle orbiter made ...

Date: May 26, 2020; Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst; Summary: In women with a history of miscarriage, higher levels of physical activity were associated with a greater risk of subclinical, or very early, pregnancy loss, according to new research.

SpaceX's first launch of NASA astronauts on the Crew Dragon spacecraft, called Demo-2, will star in a two-hour live special event jointly presented by ABC News and National Geographic. The multimedia event, called "Launch America: Mission to Space," will ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - It's back to the future as NASA astronauts launch again from the U.S. — aboard a retro-style “Right Stuff” capsule. Make no mistake: This is not your father's — or grandfather's — capsule. SpaceX's Dragon crew capsule outshines ...

WASHINGTON — A violent event on a colossal scale - the crash of two galaxies - may have paved the way for our solar system's birth. A star-formation binge in the Milky Way spanning the time when the solar system was born more than 4.5 billion years ago ...

WASHINGTON -- As SpaceX prepares to launch astronauts back into orbit from the U.S, the White House wants Congress to provide a 12 percent increase to NASA's budget, with the goal to send astronauts back to the moon by 2024.