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Tomorrow, a Man-made Spacecraft Will Land On a Comet for the First Time, Ever

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Newspaper headlines in New York, where people react to the news that Osama bin Laden was killed in a raid in Pakistan.

The Navy SEAL Who Says He Shot Bin Laden Goes Public

Robert O'Neill says he is the SEAL who killed bin Laden

The International Space Station Just Avoided a Collision With Space Junk

A four-minute maneuver by a docked, unmanned European spacecraft pushed the ISS out of the path of a hand-sized chuck of space debris

Atari cartridges and packaging recovered from the Alamogordo landfill are shown off on April 26, 2014.

Atari Games That No One Wanted Now Selling for $500 a Pop

No one wanted Atari's E.T. in 1982, but they want it now

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial manned spacecraft at the Mojave airport on December 7, 2009.

Virgin Galactic's Aggressive Plan to Get Back in the Air

The company hopes to resume flying with a new ship by summer 2015

A gray wolf, not the animal spotted at the Grand Canyon

A Lone Gray Wolf May Have Wandered Into the Grand Canyon

Officials haven’t confirmed whether the canine is a full-blooded gray wolf, but wolf advocates are pretty convinced

Even Climate Scientists Are Getting Depressed by Our Lack of Progress

Anxiety about the changing environment isn’t just affecting you and professionals are working to understand it

Participants in costume process with an effigy of Guy Fawkes, to be burned, as they take part in one of a series of processions during Bonfire night celebrations in Lewes, southern England.

Guy Fawkes May Be the Root of the Word “Guys”

The word's meaning has changed a lot throughout the centuries

Scotland Is No Longer Home to the World’s Best Whiskys

When it comes to whisky, Japan, the US and even England now reign supreme

Admire Rakti exercises on November 3rd, getting set for the fatal race.

A Horse Racing Favorite Died Minutes After Completing the Melbourne Cup

Admire Rakti wasn't even the only horse to die at the races

Billionaire Richard Branson is interviewed after unveiling Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in Mojave, California December 7, 2009.

What SpaceShipTwo's Crash Means for Virgin Galactic And Private Spaceflight

Private spaceflight may see tighter federal regulation

A scene from Uma Nagendra's prize-winning dance about how tornadoes affect ecosystems.

Get Down With This Year’s "Dance Your PhD" Winners

Acrobatic human tornadoes and pair-dancing inertial confinement fusion implosions are among this year's favorites

A worker installs filters on an experimental carbon capture and storage project in Spremberg, Germany, July 19, 2010.

It’s Still Possible to Stop the Worst of Climate Change

Say so long to fossil fuels

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during its initial unveiling in 2009.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Just Crashed in California

The private spaceflight company was testing a new fuel for their experimental spaceship

These are a pretty good idea regardless.

Scientists Are Pretty Sure Survivors Can't Transmit Ebola Sexually

Research suggests Ebola survivors aren't infectious, but scientists aren't ruling it out

Why Doctors Still Don’t Know What's Causing a Paralysis-Inducing Illness in Children

More children are showing up with limb flaccidness than health officials would expect, but the illness remains rare and mysterious

President Obama discussing Ebola at a meeting with the UN.

Scientists Who Traveled to Ebola-Infected Countries Are Being Asked to Skip a Big Tropical Medicine Meeting

Researchers from the frontline of the fight against Ebola must cancel their plans to attend an upcoming conference in New Orleans

Did this piece of debris come from Amelia Earhart's plane? Some think so; others disagree.

Aircraft Hunters Think They’ve Found a Scrap of Amelia Earhart’s Plane

This isn't the first time a seemingly game-changing piece of evidence about Earhart's disappearance has arisen, however

Google Is Working on a Pill That Can Figure Out What Ails You

Microscopic particles will spy on the cells of your body and look for any disease, including cancer

The now non-existent Antares rocket sits on the launch pad at Wallops Flight Facility on October 26, 2014.

The Antares Rocket Explosion Wasn't Orbital Sciences' First Big Malfunction

Orbital Sciences has lost some of NASA's gear before, because going to space is really, really hard

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