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Dinosaur from newfound species died in a pose that sheds light on evolution of bird behavior

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Frank Borman: Apollo astronaut dead at 95

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Face of ‘Ice Maiden’ revealed after being frozen for 500 years

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Puzzlingly massive planet found orbiting a small star

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Cosmic ‘Christmas tree’ dazzles in new image captured by Hubble and Webb

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Mary Cleave, the first woman to fly on NASA’s space shuttle after Challenger disaster, dies at 76

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket and spacecraft lost in second test flight

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Scientists create chimeric monkey with two sets of DNA

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Shenzhou-17 launch: China has sent its youngest-ever astronaut crew to the Tiangong space station

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Planet-forming disk detected around star in another galaxy for the first time

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