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Model Miranda Kerr returned roughly $8 million in jewelry — including a heart-shaped pink diamond — to U.S. investigators tracing gifts allegedly bought with stolen 1MDB cash
Miranda Kerr handed jewelry to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2017, including a heart-shaped pink diamond that had been given to her by…
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A commercial robot will try to catch NASA's sinking Swift telescope this month — a first for a satellite never built to be serviced
A robotic spacecraft built by a Flagstaff, Arizona, startup is preparing to chase down one of NASA's space telescopes and boost it into a higher orbit.
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
A spacecraft travelling at Parker Solar Probe’s peak speed would reach the Moon in about 35 minutes — a trip that took Apollo 11 roughly three days
Mercury was once expected to be far too hot for ice, sitting closest to the Sun — but radar observations revealed bright patches near its poles, and NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft later confirmed that many of them were water ice, preserved inside craters where sunlight never reaches.
344 steps stood between the James Webb Space Telescope and total failure — any one could have ended it — and the telescope that survived them all now runs on less power than a household kettle, a million miles from Earth
Some climate models suggest Venus could once have had liquid water and habitable temperatures, until a dramatic transformation hundreds of millions of years ago. One leading idea is that widespread volcanic resurfacing helped push the planet into the runaway greenhouse state that left it hotter than Mercury today.
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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
Bowhead whales can live past 200 years, and biologists studying their DNA have found unique gene variants for repairing damage that may explain why they almost never develop the cancers that kill most other large mammals before 80.
In 2002 astronomers averaged the light of 200,000 galaxies and announced the universe was pale turquoise — then traced the color to a software error and corrected it to a beige they nicknamed cosmic latte
In summer 2025, a roughly 4.56-billion-year-old meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in McDonough, Georgia — and analysis by researchers at the University of Georgia determined the rock is approximately 20 million years older than Earth itself, meaning the homeowner spent that night sleeping in a house that had just been physically struck by a piece of the solar system older than the planet she was standing on
A spacecraft travelling at Parker Solar Probe’s peak speed would reach the Moon in about 35 minutes — a trip that took Apollo 11 roughly three days
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