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A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, with a payload of 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, May 23, 2019. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

See SpaceX launch 60 internet satellites into orbit

A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, with a payload of 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, May 23, 2019. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

SpaceX launches first batch of 60 internet satellites in landmark mission

DNA helix and genetic mapping

The DNA diet: How knowing your genes can help you fit into your jeans

After years of fierce debate, Taiwan celebrates the first same-sex weddings in Asia

Score big on the Instant Pot, Roomba and more this Memorial Day

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Why Memorial Day is the best time to buy a new mattress

circa 1835: Slaves aboard a slave ship being shackled before being put in the hold. Illustration by Swain (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Historians have been searching for the last slave ship that came to America. They found it in Alabama

Beaming cheap internet from space has bankrupted other companies. Here's how SpaceX plans to survive

Fungi ancestors have been around for at least a billion years, according to a new study.

A new discovery reveals fungi have been around on our Earth for way longer than we thought

How Disney's new Star Wars lands will help keep the magic (and profits) flowing

High noon weekend view of Kailua Beach located on the eastern side of the Oahu Island, Hawaii. This beautiful beach has unusual tranquil water which makes it popular for safe swimming, windsurfing,boating and ocean kayaking.

Top US beaches for 2019

North Korea lashes out at Joe Biden

Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, inspects New Shepard's West Texas launch facility before the rocket's maiden voyage. Blue Origin

Now we know why SpaceX is suing the US government

Members of the public who want to send their name to Mars on NASA's next rover mission to the Red Planet (Mars 2020) can get a souvenir boarding pass and their names etched on microchips to be affixed to the rover.

Send in your names to fly aboard the rover to Mars. (Your name, not you)

Ford - Agility Robotics shoot in Albany, Ore. on May 10, 2019. Photo © Tim LaBarge 2019

Ford quiere que este robot lleve paquetes a tu puerta

Ford - Agility Robotics shoot in Albany, Ore. on May 10, 2019. Photo © Tim LaBarge 2019

Ford's delivery robot walks like a human

IN SPACE - JULY 17: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) In this handout photo provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) on July 17, 2014, German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image of the Earth reflecting light from the sun whilst aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Gerst returned to earth on November 10, 2014 after spending six months on the International Space Station completing an extensive scientific programme, known as the 'Blue Dot' mission (after astronomer Carl Sagan's description of Earth, as seen on a photograph taken by the Voyager probe from six billion kilometres away). (Photo by Alexander Gerst / ESA via Getty Images)

Spike in banned ozone-eating CFC gases linked to China in new research

Ford and Agility Robotics explore how a new robot, Digit, can help get packages to your door efficiently with the help of self-driving vehicles.

Ford's new robot can deliver packages to your doorstep

VSS Unity takes to the skies for her Third Powered Test Flight

Richard Branson: We're at the dawn of new era of space exploration

DENALI NATIONAL PARK, AK - SEPTEMBER 1: A view of Denali, formerly known as Mt. McKinley, on September 1, 2015 in Denali National Park, Alaska. According to the National Park Service, the summit elevation of Denali is 20,320 feet and is the highest mountain peak in North America. (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images)

25 of the most beautiful places around the world

This aerial picture taken on October 15, 2018 shows Normandy American Cemetery close to Omaha beach in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the French western Norman coast. (Photo by DAMIEN MEYER / AFP) (Photo credit should read DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images)

CNN Travel's 19 best places to visit in 2019

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden during a campaign rally at Eakins Oval in Philadelphia, Saturday, May 18, 2019. (AP/Matt Rourke)

A 'fool of low IQ': North Korea derides US presidential candidate Joe Biden

We've seen tropical storms before June 1 for the past 5 years. Why is that still the start of hurricane season?

GREENLAND - MARCH 30: Sea ice is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft off the northwest coast on March 30, 2017 above Greenland. NASA's Operation IceBridge has been studying how polar ice has evolved over the past nine years and is currently flying a set of eight-hour research flights over ice sheets and the Arctic Ocean to monitor Arctic ice loss aboard a retrofitted 1966 Lockheed P-3 aircraft. According to NASA scientists and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), sea ice in the Arctic appears to have reached its lowest maximum wintertime extent ever recorded on March 7.Scientists have said the Arctic has been one of the regions hardest hit by climate change. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Sea levels may rise much faster than previously predicted, swamping coastal cities such as Shanghai, study finds

Ancient finds

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Myers: If you live in this area, this is a dangerous day

The key fossil examined in this study is a 3-million-year-old extinct species of field mouse from Germany. The mouse is approximately 7 cm long. CREDIT University of Gottingen

3 million-year-old 'mighty mouse' fossil still has red fur

A tornado, left, and a funnel cloud are seen near Crescent, Oklahoma. Both went on to become tornadoes, according to CNN's weather department.

Tornadoes and flash floods threaten millions from Texas to Missouri

The nightmarish works of H.R. Giger, the artist behind "Alien"

Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., watches a video of the new Kindle Fire HD tablet at a news conference in Santa Monica, California, on Sept. 6, 2012. (Patrick Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Jeff Bezos Fast Facts

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You've never seen Pluto like this

This image of Pluto was captured from New Horizons was captured on Monday, July 13, about 16 hours before the moment of closest approach. The spacecraft was 476,000 miles from the surface of the dwarf planet.

What keeps Pluto's ocean from freezing?

International prototype of the kilogram

Out with the old kilogram, in with the new -- scientists introduce more accurate measure

Why Facebook is teaching a bug-like robot to walk

'GoT' and 'Big Bang Theory' finales highlight shift to fewer shared TV experiences

Before and after comparison of the landing site. Date in lower left indicates when the image was taken. It appears the spacecraft landed from the north on the rim of a small crater, about a few meters wide, leaving a dark "smudge" on Mare Serenitatis that's elongated towards the south.

This is where the Israeli spacecraft crashed into the moon

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - APRIL 11: An Israeli man react after Beresheet spacecraft fails to land safely on the moon on April 11, 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Israeli spacecraft - called Beresheet, which is a joint project between SpaceIL, a privately funded Israeli non-profit organisation, and Israel Aerospace Industries failed to land on the lunar surface after the apparent failure of its main engine. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

First privately-funded moon mission ends in crash

Minecraft Earth

Minecraft AR game could be the next Pokémon GO phenomenon

Minecraft Earth

Minecraft wants to build on Pokémon Go's success

An expert inspects a dead gray whale as it sits on the beach near Pacifica State Beach on Tuesday in Pacifica, California.

Mysterious surge in dead gray whales concerns scientists

In the abortion debate, when does life begin?

Stojan Stojanovski was near the Ohrid "St. Paul the Apostle" Airport to photograph the blue moon. "The moon was very bright," he said. He waited for planes to take off from the airport to get this long exposure shot. http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1261121

Rare 'blue flower moon' will appear in Saturday night's sky

A picture taken on May 17, 2019 in Berlin shows a Stone Cross, a key 15th-century navigation landmark erected by Portuguese explorers, seen at the History Museum in Berlin. - The History Museum museum announced it would restitute the cross to Namibia as part of Berlin's efforts to face up to its colonial past. Placed in 1486 on the western coast of what is today Namibia, the Stone Cross was once considered to be such an important navigation marker that it featured on old world maps. In the 1890s, it was removed from its spot on Cape Cross and brought to Europe by the region's then German colonial masters. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) (Photo credit should read TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Germany to return 500-year-old monument to Namibia

SpaceX will launch its first 60 satellites to deliver internet from space

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What is a blue moon?