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Planes and ships could run on kelp someday, but there are serious hurdles

Astronomers believe they’ve detected an atmosphere around a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto

A bright moon may dim the Eta Aquarid meteor shower made up of Halley’s comet debris

Mexico City is sinking so quickly, it can be seen from space

Eyes to the Skies for May: Summer constellations visible as full flower moon takes over the sky

J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies at 79