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A previously flown rocket will launch a previously flown spacecraft to the space station
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The Cassini probe's final swoops through the rings found that they impact the planet's ionosphere
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Data from the Cassini space probe suggests that the rings may be as young as 150 million years old
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This map of 'naked' Greenland is the most detailed yet and can help in refining climate predictions
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Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation's complete catalogue raisonné, which spans from 1910 to 1983, is sheer surrealist eye candy
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The property will go up for sale in 2018
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The rare black-backed oriole showed up outside Reading, Pennsylvania, and birdwatchers flocked to the scene
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The new museum houses 50 works by the acclaimed artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
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Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai has lasted longer than it should, and the processes that formed the island are of interest to NASA
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Layered lattes are a cool trick, but the science of why it happens could help in manufacturing and even studying the ocean
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Get outdoors for the Audubon's annual Christmas Bird Count
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Literally, that was it
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These "poles of inaccessibility" are among the world's most remote places
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Coming up with ways to lower the price of pearls—either through culturing or by out-right fakery—took centuries
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He’s one of the United States’s most revered figures, but his last hours were plagued by excruciating illness
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Sorry, there's no DNA left. But the find does provide the first strong evidence that the parasites preyed on dinosaurs
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The fate of the works has become a point of contention in Catalonia’s bitter push for independence
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The University of Texas has digitized some 27,000 documents from the collection of the acclaimed author
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The ancient mega-penguins waddled around New Zealand some 60 million years ago
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The poet’s annual Christmas cards, made in compilation with printer Joe Blumenthal, were not necessarily traditional, but they were always beautiful
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