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  1. Pinned Tweet
    2 Jan 2018

    This is what's coming up around our solar system in 2018. Get in sync with our calendar:

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  2. 13 hours ago

    It is both the largest and youngest of these proto-mammals found so far and its discovery provides further evidence that they survived even as the dinosaurs conquered the world

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  3. 14 hours ago

    The bones suggest that these early relatives of mammals did not go extinct before dinosaurs began conquering the land, but instead co-existed with them for millions of additional years

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  4. 16 hours ago

    “It was so obvious to us that this was a really big animal. It’s a monster. We don’t have something like this in the fossil record.”

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  5. 16 hours ago

    “We are building China into a space giant,” said the chief designer of China’s lunar mission

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  6. 16 hours ago

    The far side of the moon is very different from the side you see in the night sky. Here's what you need to know.

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  7. 17 hours ago

    “The deity himself is portrayed more as wearing the skin of a sacrificial victim, and he was impersonated by actual priests of sacrificial victims,” a professor of Mesoamerican history said of the finding.

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  8. 17 hours ago

    “Something really big is waiting for us in Poland”

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  9. 17 hours ago

    What we've learned (so far) from New Horizons' visit to the object nicknamed Ultima Thule

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  10. 18 hours ago

    Before we finish the first week of this year, we’ll see a Chinese probe landing on the moon, an eclipse and NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft complete a flyby of the most distant object ever visited in the solar system. Then there's the next 51 more weeks.

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  11. 18 hours ago

    A giant floating boom sent out to take on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will head back home. In pieces.

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  12. 18 hours ago

    All but lost in the crush of congratulations to an American and Briton for their recent solo traverses of Antarctica was the crossing two decades ago by a Norwegian who traveled twice the distance of the most recent forays across the frozen continent.

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  13. 19 hours ago

    If you want to see the latest images of Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever visited after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft completed a flyby on New Year's Day, watch this space

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  14. 19 hours ago

    Never miss a meteor shower, a supermoon or a space launch ever again.

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  15. 19 hours ago

    “We are, of course, quite bummed about this,” says the nonprofit group behind an ocean-cleaning device that has malfunctioned

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  16. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    In a first, China landed its Chang’e-4 spacecraft on the far side of the moon, in the Von Kármán Crater. Spin the moon in our interactive, and explore it from all sides.

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  17. Jan 3

    Many astronomers wonder whether a circular orbit might be a crucial ingredient in the cocktail of life, a question they have asked as they search the thousands of exoplanets we know are circling other stars

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  18. Jan 3

    “We are building China into a space giant,” said the chief designer of China’s lunar mission

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  19. Jan 3

    A crop of naturalistic pet performers, in movies like “Can You Ever Forgive Me” and “Widows,” make Toto look like a hack. Their performances raise the question: Are animals getting better at acting?

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  20. Jan 3

    The arthropods with whom we share our homes: biting midges, mosquitoes, lesser house flies, phantom midges, freeloader flies, shore flies, fungus gnats, moth flies, flesh flies, crane flies, winter crane flies and minute black scavenger flies

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  21. Jan 3

    If you want to see the latest images of Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever visited after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft completed a flyby on New Year's Day, watch this space

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