Top news for December 21, 2008

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On This Day In Space: May 25, 2008: NASA's Phoenix spacecraft lands on Mars

Warm Water Under The 'Doomsday Glacier' Threatens to Melt It Faster Than We Predicted

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Stretches Its Wings in Successful Solar Panel Deployment Test

Quantum Photonics Breakthrough Promises a New Era of Powerful Optical Circuits

It's a triceratops! Denver museum releases new info on Highlands Ranch dinosaur dig

Artists in the stone age were high at work, new study suggests. New research by archaeologists gives reason to believe that ancient cave painters used to be stoned too, and they’d perhaps even use work as an excuse to get high.

Origin of Modern Rainforests Traced to Cataclysmic Asteroid Impact That Destroyed Nearly 75% of All Terrestrial Life on Earth

Newly Discovered Virus-Cell Interaction May Explain COVID-19’s High Infection Rate

Did Marie Antoinette really say 'Let them eat cake'?

NASA Mourns the Death of Apollo-Era Astronaut Philip K. Chapman