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The Trump administration proposed in its budget presentation to NASA for fiscal year 2021 that $ 4.7 billion be allocated to exploration research and development (R&D), including the Human Landing System (HLS). The numbers were designed to ensure that NASA could return astronauts to the moon by 2024. However, House …

Australia’s square kilometer matrix pathfinder was used to scan the skies for radio waves. (Credit: CSIRO) There’s something unusual lurking deep in space: Astronomers have discovered four faint objects that are highly circular and brighter along the edges at radio wavelengths. And they are unlike any kind of astronomical object …

The Sunshine State recorded more than 15,000 new infections on Sunday, the highest number of new cases in a single day by any state, as the pandemic spread through the heart of the south and west, including Texas, Georgia and Arizona. The increase came two months after many states, regardless …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Mars is about to be invaded by planet Earth – in a big way. Three countries, the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates, are sending unmanned spacecraft to the red planet in rapid succession starting this week, in the largest effort yet to …

Today, flowering plants (or angiosperms) represent about four-fifths of all green plants on Earth, but for billions of years they did not exist at all. Biologists have now been able to fully record the rapid increase in angiosperms in the past 140 million years. A recently released ‘time tree’ of …