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NASA begins its second Mars trial in Houston, where four volunteers will live for a year in a printed habitat called the CHAPEA program.

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Astronomers directly imaged a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, solving a decades-old mystery about its strange ...

Countries have submitted their most recent round of promises and plans to fight climate change, and the UN has tallied them ...

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