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Research Library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday

A Saturn-Sized Planet Is Drifting Through Space Alone

Forget Transistors: This New “Intelligent” Material Computes Like a Human Brain

This tiny plant is helping solve crimes

Did an exploding comet wipe out the mammoths?

Goddard's space library to shut, losing vast material

There is as much life left to discover on planet Earth as that which is already known: Around 16,000 new species are described each year, but most animals and plants are listed as threatened as soon as they are brought to light

China Advances Toward Fusion Ignition With Major Plasma Breakthrough

See The Full ‘Wolf Supermoon’ Rise Saturday — When And Where To Look

Don’t Miss The Quadrantid Meteor Shower Peak On Saturday Night