Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo glides back into the space race0
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- December 7, 2016
The spacecraft nailed its first unpowered glide since a fatal accident in 2014

The spacecraft nailed its first unpowered glide since a fatal accident in 2014

Today, the city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan is relatively remote, known mostly for its magnificent medieval ruins. But over a millennium ago, it was one of the richest cities on the infamous trade route known as the Silk Road. Back in the 600s CE, that route was called simply “the road to Samarkand.”

What NASA Predicts About Meteors From Comets/Asteroid Belt Hitting Earth

Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean, which is not so much a sign of water as it is a tremendous clue that other dwarf planets in deep space also may contain similarly exotic oceans, naturally leading to the question of life, said one co-investigator with NASA’s New Horizon mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

The comfortably warm atmosphere of a brown dwarf is an underappreciated potential home for alien life, scientists say.
The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal has sometimes been described as the ‘first library’ in the world, or the ‘oldest surviving royal library in the world’.

A deep learning system generates the next few frames of a story based on just one image, helping it to predict the future and understand the present

The tomb of an Iron Age Celtic prince has been unearthed in a small French town.

Mississippi floods shaped the rise and fall of the prehistoric metropolis known as Cahokia.

Karl Dorey will be recounting his life-long episodes of extra-terrestrial contact