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Prehistoric 'hobbit' mystery may have been solved

6 years 10 months ago
Back in 2003, the skeletal fragments of nine small hominids were found in the Liang Bua Cave on Flores, an Indonesian Island. The find included an almost complete skull and partial skeleton of a probable female around 30 years of age, which was named LB1. Once reconstructed, researchers were shocked to find that LB1 was only three and a half feet tall.
Walt Bonner

Space capsule soars in dramatic abort test

6 years 10 months ago
Boeing’s Starliner capsule that will eventually take astronauts into space completed a key abort test Monday when it soared for almost a mile before parachuting back into the New Mexico desert.
James Rogers

NASA is sending cookies to space

6 years 10 months ago
NASA is sending a zero-G oven to the International Space Station (ISS) to help astronauts make "common and widely consumed foods in space," including chocolate chip cookies.
Chris Ciaccia

NASA eyes Pluto mission

6 years 11 months ago
Just days after NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that Pluto should be given back its planet status, the U.S. space agency announced that it has funded a study to see if another orbiter mission is feasible.
Chris Ciaccia
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