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Perseids to peak overnight, followed by bright Jupiter and Venus

Venus and Jupiter appear close in the sky as summer’s best meteor shower peaks soon

Artist drowns sculpture in plastic waste in front of the UN during plastic pollution treaty talks

Feel sticky this summer? That’s because it’s been record muggy East of the Rockies

Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97

Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers

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Hubble Space Telescope takes best picture yet of the comet visiting from another solar system

Scientists thought this Argentine glacier was stable. Now they say it’s melting fast

Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years

Trump moves to shut down NASA missions that measure carbon dioxide and plant health

Pakistan’s deadly monsoon floods were worsened by global warming, study finds

Stuck astronaut Butch Wilmore retires from NASA less than 5 months after extended spaceflight

What to know about the Titan sub and its tragic final dive to the Titanic

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars

A volcano in Russia’s Far East erupts for the first time in centuries

Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars

Russian and US space chiefs meet to discuss continued cooperation

An Ohio couple welcomes a baby boy from a nearly 31-year-old frozen embryo

Astronauts launch to the space station after sidelined by Boeing’s troubled Starliner

In a miniature world, climate change and environmental issues loom large

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