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SETI director steps down
For more than three decades, Jill Tarter has been the public face of the sometimes controversial, sometimes lauded search for signs of intelligent beings throughout the cosmos.
SpaceX, NASA prep milestone launch
Privately built, Dragon capsule is scheduled to try to dock with the international space station next week.
Studies detail pesticides’ harm to bees
Two new studies pointing directly at the harm to bees from insecticides most commonly used by grain, cotton, bean and vegetable farmers.
Russians drill into untouched lake below Antarctica
Scientists have drilled into the vast Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, according to a state-run Russian news agency.
- Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake
- Landing on Mars is hard, but another mission to the Red Planet is about to begin
- NASA Mars mission to test planet for ability to sustain life
- Researchers shed light on source of Earth’s water
- Water on Mars? Scientists find strongest evidence yet in reappearing streaks
- NASA selects landing site for Mars rover
- Atlantis landing completes space shuttle era
- Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows evidence of an ocean beneath its surface
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