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- Tom Cruise Will Actually Go to Outer Space For New Action Movie
- 2020 one of three warmest years on record: WMO
- NASA's Boeing moon rocket cuts short 'once-in-a-generation' ground test
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Tom Cruise Collaborating With Elon Musk’s SpaceX To Shoot Movie In Space
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Tom Cruise Will Actually Go to Outer Space For New Action Movie
He's jumped out of planes. NASA's Jim Bridenstine , says they're "excited to work with Tom Cruise on a film aboard the International Space Station". "I h...
2020 one of three warmest years on record: WMO
According to the scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in NY, with the continuing long-term warming trend of the planet, last year's g...
NASA's Boeing moon rocket cuts short 'once-in-a-generation' ground test
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Joint Russian-US crew blasts off to International Space Station
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SpaceX Cargo Dragon Capsule Splashes Down to Earth
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Andy Murray tests positive for COVID-19 before Australian Open
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WHO team arrives in Wuhan to search for pandemic origins
The WHO team underwent both throat swabs and serum antibody tests at the airport, and will go through relevant quarantine procedures required under China's ep...
French wine returns to Earth after a year in space
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The defacement of the manatee with " Trump " is anything but accidental. The Chronicle published a video showing an underwater view of the slow-moving mamma...
Earth’s spin is believed to be speeding up
However, now the planet is speeding up and a negative leap second may soon be needed so atomic clocks can align correctly with the turning world . The ...
SpaceX completes 2021 first rocket launch by sending communications satellite
According to Spaceflight Now , the tracking data of the U.S. military shows that the Falcon 9 successfully delivered the Turksat 5A to the orbit "ranging betwe...
US judge denies effort to stop drilling auction in Arctic refuge
The sale generated $14.4 million, according to the U.S. Department of Interior - far short of the expected take. BERKELEY, CA-JAN. 7, 2021-Trump administratio...
Quebec to impose 'electroshock' curfew for 4 weeks, starting Saturday
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Quadrantid meteor shower peaks this weekend and other celestial events in 2021
Toronto time on January 3 and the best time to see these without the moon is before dawn", said Vaughan, a public outreach and education specialist with the Roy...
Prime viewing for Quadrantids meteor shower early Sunday
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First Known Case Of UK COVID-19 Variant Identified In The US
Gavin Newsom announced the new variant of the coronavirus is circulating somewhere in Southern California, leaders of the Los Angeles County Department of Pu...
Donald Trump returns to White House early, offers year-end message
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A Chinese Covid-19 vaccine has proved effective, its maker says
The minister told Reuters the purchase would be of the vaccine candidate developed by Sinopharm's Beijing Institute of Biological Products. The political stak...
US Nurse Tests Positive Over A Week After Receiving Pfizer Vaccine
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Cold Moon 2020: Date, timings and everything you need to know
The occurrence of a second full moon in October, known as a Blue Moon , meant 2020 had an extra full moon . There are other names of the Full Cold Moon. The a...
"Doc" Antle from Tiger King indicted on animal cruelty charges
Attorney General Mark Herring said Friday that a months-long investigation found that Bhagavan "Doc" Antle and the owner of a roadside zoo in Virginia traff...
Hong Kong: 10 defendants face trial over attempt to flee country
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Have a Merry and Eco-Friendly Christmas: Recycle Your Tree
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Russian-US Crew Launches on Fast Track to the Space Station
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More cases of new Covid variant found in Europe
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"Christmas Star" visible this week
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UK Records Highest Daily Number Of Coronavirus Cases
Meanwhile, Hancock said that another new variant of the novel coronavirus , reportedly related to travellers from South Africa, has been detected in Britain, a...
Great conjunction something special for sky-watchers
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Coronavirus In Illinois: State passes 900,000 Cases, Adds 79 Additional Deaths
Through today, 326 have died from COVID-19 related illness in the county. They were among 95 resident deaths recorded statewide on Sunday. Manatee County's cu...
Jupiter and Saturn Great Conjunction captured in Arizona
Look for the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction low in the western sky for about an hour after sunset each evening during this time. In an online lecture on Thursda...
Christmas Star set to make first appearance in 800 years on Monday
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SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral
After Thursday, December 17th's SpaceX launch of a spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office was canceled due to high pressure in the rocket's upper ...
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- French wine returns to Earth after a year in space
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- Earth’s spin is believed to be speeding up
- SpaceX completes 2021 first rocket launch by sending communications satellite